The app also forwards you to this broken page (obstructed by image) if you try to use it in an emulator: https://rasp.tatrabanka.sk/emul (or without "emul" on rooted device)

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[–] 137 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

The irony is that the app will just be a wrapper for a webview, with extra data harvesting.

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  • [–] 32 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

    ...and civil action if you try to reverse engineer or circumvent the app in any way... because the app's code is copyrighted. If you do it for someone else or make a post explaining how you did it things can get really spicy. Lord help you if you profit commercially from it.

    Yay DMCA, in particular Section 1201!

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  • [–] 7 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

    So far, AFAIK, the "must use app to bank" problem is happening only outside the US where the DMCA doesn't apply.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

    It was actually forced onto the US by a clever US politician, Bruce Lehman - the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under Bill Clinton, who pushed it into an international treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Europe also approved the treaty and I assume the European counterparts still stand.

    The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC, creating copyright protection for software; Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases; and Directive 2001/29/EC, prohibiting devices for circumventing "technical protection measures", such as digital rights management (also known as DRM).

    Maybe it isn't so thoroughly abused over there though. Poor Europeans lack the highly sought after freedom (to lose all of your rights to mega-corporations) we enjoy in the USA.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    We can still reverse engineer as long as it’s for compatibility for example. So building a FOSS app after reverse engineer the other one is fine. Especially if that bank doesn’t support your device.

    It’s still probably violating terms and stuff so they could just terminate your account.

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