[second_brekkie]

I live in Korea. In my experience pretty much everyone I know uses banking apps which you can do everything through, not online banking through a browser.

You would hope that these would be somewhat more secure as this may have required a 're-write' as the article suggested.

Though even with mobile apps you sometimes have to install some 3rd party 'anti-virus' software that probably amounts to spyware. But hey you can either lump it or leave it.

They do at least try to make you feel like it's secure. To set up mobile banking you need at least 3 different passwords and need to perform 2fa 3 times as well.

They have 'front end' security too, such as each time you enter a pass code the keyboard is in a different arrangement.

[flotzam]

There's a curious absence of Korean banking apps on this GrapheneOS compatibility list:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Does it mean none are usable on a modern clean Android? Or is there a total Samsung monoculture? Something else?

[ponorin]

I live in Korea and run the latest GrapheneOS on Pixel 6. I have 6 different banking apps (Citi, IBK, Woori, etc.) installed and all of them work flawlessly. I also have a few government apps running and they work as well. There are definitely some apps that don't run on it (Donbaekjeon, Busan's local payment app being one) but overall they work.

[ravel-bar-foo]

Korean banking apps usually are disabled in rooted Android, probably because in rooted Android the integrity of the binary cannot be verified.

[veeti]

No one uses GrapheneOS in Korea?