Comment by atmanactive
Comment by atmanactive 6 days ago
An app that would allow an account to change it's location more than 3 times in a year is a broken app in my book.
Comment by atmanactive 6 days ago
An app that would allow an account to change it's location more than 3 times in a year is a broken app in my book.
Then it would need a GPS-backed proof to allow more location changes while preventing abuse. There's always an intended use case and corner cases which could be handled via support ticket, thus passing through human judgement.
If there is a secure app on your phone, then how can you have multiple accounts?
Well, one answer might be that someone could spin up emulators
Or reverse engineer whatever app you have.
Or reset their phone? (or would you restrict it somehow to one account per physical phone? What happens if it gets sold or given away?)
Having worked in fraud detection a bit, it's _really_ hard to prevent people from making multiple accounts. Short of requiring ID based verification, and even then.
And then you have to still not go overboard and keep the onboarding low friction enough that people will be willing to go through it
Your points are all true. But we must not forget that security is like onion layers. The fact that something can't be made military-grade hack-proof doesn't mean we should leave it wide open for the whole world to abuse.
GPS could confirm that you are indeed where you claim you are. In the unlikely case you want to change your location for the Nth time.
People move all the time. People also often have multiple accounts, which they could use to determine which accounts are located where.