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That's almost the case in Europe thanks to PSD2, for instance banks cannot use only SMS tokens anymore.

The second factor is typically a mobile app that prompts your biometric authentication, and this obviously allows geofencing ATM withdrawals.



A mobile app running on a phone that does not receive security updates anymore (or the user not installing them) and a platform fully accessible to the NSA. I really prefer hardware tokens distributed by the bank. Even if the implementation might suck from cryptographic point of view, they are offline.




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