Capitec bank app scanning my phone and dictating apps i'm allowed to have

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I opened up my Capitec bank app this morning.

To my surprise it tells me i have a suspicious app "Telegam" installed, and i need to uninstall it to continue.

ITS PART OF MY JOB TO DO TELEGRAM INTEGRATION!!!!

Its pathetic how instead of putting in the effort to up their security, they now scan your phone and rather dictate what you may have installed on your phone

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Smiggles said:
Makes sense. Telegram is just used by scammers.
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No it doesnt make sense ..... i would argue mobile networks in general isused more by scammers.

This is the type of comment that saw StackOverflow see its arse... you have people commenting just for the sake of commenting, and missing the point.
 
I don’t agree with the general concept of what capitec are going here - they need to up their security instead of black list what apps people can have on their own phones.

That said, if an app was going to be blscklisted for security reasons, I fully support it being telegram. Only scammers and human traffickers and tin foil hat society types use telegram anyway
 
Polemus said:
No it doesnt make sense ..... i would argue mobile networks in general isused more by scammers.

This is the type of comment that saw StackOverflow see its arse... you have people commenting just for the sake of commenting, and missing the point.
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Ignore the Capitec troll. It's blatant overreach. They should be securing their app better instead of shifting responsibility to the user...
 
Zellephant said:
they need to up their security instead of black list what apps people can have on their own phones
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Ridiculous statement.

Our insistance that our cruddy behaviour on these devices is someone else's problem.... IS the problem.

Installing garbage apps which are collecting data, behaviour or are just a basic front for key loggers, etc, is precisely why they are doing this. Because us idiots keep getting "hacked".... like a bunch of mouth-breathing farkwhits desperate for "free" things.....

Mobile devices are always our number one infestation reported items. Because users are largely morons.
 
Polemus said:
I opened up my Capitec bank app this morning.

To my surprise it tells me i have a suspicious app "Telegam" installed, and i need to uninstall it to continue.

ITS PART OF MY JOB TO DO TELEGRAM INTEGRATION!!!!

Its pathetic how instead of putting in the effort to up their security, they now scan your phone and rather dictate what you may have installed on your phone

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Here is what someone else did in other thread:

Force closed Telegram and now it is working.

Weird either way.
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Did you download it via the playstore or was it from a 3rd party site? i have telegram installed and my capitec app has 0 issues with it
 
Brian_G said:
Nobody asked Capitec to play policebot
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But we do when we run around whining about losing money because we installed random garbage alongside the banking app that stole the credentials that were used to move money about, thereby making the bank responsible for our shiatty behaviour.

Should they not be allowed to apply additional protections?
 
Polemus said:
Playstore and i tried the option to force stop. but the app is already stopped and "Force Stop" is disabled.
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Strange, ABSA app had issues with an APK i got from F-droid just because it wasn't signed by google play or something like that, but i have never had this issue with an app from the play store itself
 
sounds a look like you need Magisk hide that could hide things from banking apps. not sure it it works for that as well?

but very concerning, as I have FNB and gotyme and Discovery AND Telegram and its never flagged any of them.
 
Polemus said:
No it doesnt make sense ..... i would argue mobile networks in general isused more by scammers.

This is the type of comment that saw StackOverflow see its arse... you have people commenting just for the sake of commenting, and missing the point.
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Strange then that FNB and probably other banks are doing it as well...
https://www.reddit.com/r/askSouthAfrica/comments/1rldmvq/how_to_stop_having_fnb_app_showing_i_have
https://www.reddit.com/r/DownSouth/comments/1gnwei8/hi_guys_my_fnb_banking_app_wont_work_because_it
 
rustypup said:
But we do when we run around whining about losing money because we installed random garbage alongside the banking app that stole the credentials that were used to move money about, thereby making the bank responsible for our shiatty behaviour.

Should they not be allowed to apply additional protections?
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And the bank will absolve themselves of liability, since biometric auth should be standard.

Policing your device is ironically exactly the same behaviour you would expect from malicious apps...
 
rustypup said:
But we do when we run around whining about losing money because we installed random garbage alongside the banking app that stole the credentials that were used to move money about, thereby making the bank responsible for our shiatty behaviour.

Should they not be allowed to apply additional protections?
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OK, so is the bank now paying or helping for the device to decide what is and isn't allowed?? If they so worried about it they would make you enrol in some kind of banking MDM,
 
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