Re: KMyMoney and PSD 2
On 19/09/14 10:04, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi!
>
> With some European banking institutes KMyMoney HBCI/FinTS transfer has
> stopped working today. For one institute I have an account with I opened
> a bug report in Debian as I believe that KMyMoney 5.0.6 will fix that
> particular issue.
>
> However, that issue is just about the necessary registration code.
>
> Some banking institutes may start to require a second factor today or
> soon. This is not yet covered by the version of AQBanking in Debian and
> probably will need another update for KMyMoney.
>
> This all means that unless backports are provided online banking with
> HBCI/FinTS will basically stop working with more and more banking
> institutes in Europe. I however appreciate that providing backports
> would be quite some work for Qt/KDE team as well as AQBanking
> maintainers, so if you depend on this feature the path of least
> resistance might be to just switch to Debian Testing once the necessary
> updates are in place.
>
> I do not really think PSD 2 in its current form is a good idea. The
> registration code does not provide any additional security since it is
> just a number being transferred. And allowing FinTech startups API
> access to banking accounts to me sounds like a very bad idea for privacy
> and security. But those are the new regulations so, …
>
> Please understand that both upstream and Debian teams are very small. So
> please allow for some time to have this settled at least in Unstable /
> Testing. My experience with past issues like where I could not use HBCI/
> FinTS for a while has been that banking institutes keep transactions
> available through it for quite a while, so I was able to catch up once
> it started working again.
>
> [1] kmymoney: please update to 5.0.6 so KMyMoney uses registration code
> for PSD2
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/940223
I think it's time you start packaging stuff, and help with this :-)
No jokes, and if anyone else feels like jumping in, please shout :-)
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