Insecurity of phone banking

[dyqik]

... an IT security expert... tells me that having a banking app on your mobile phone is just inherently insecure and you shouldn't do it.

Experts in things always say stuff like that.

For example: https://x.com/LNuzhna/status/1869697908200898954

Nature just published a piece on why probability doesn't exist.
Lee Cronin said many times chemical reactions are not real.
Your genetics professor probably confessed to you before that there are no genes.
Biologists still disagree on whether cell types are even real.
And we already discussed how there is no such thing as aging.

This summarizes one of my favorite parts of doing science - the longer you stare at your cherished concept, the more it disintegrates and becomes non-existent. Seems to be a universal feeling - struggle to describe reality with words and numbers - experienced by many across fields.

So "IT security expert says IT thing is insecure" falls right into that.

And is based on the inability of the person saying it to understand contingent and contextual descriptive nouns and descriptions.

A physicist can claim that anvils don't exist, it's just an arrangement of gluons, quarks and electrons, but that doesn't make the anvil land any less hard on their head.