[tor-talk] problems faced with tor browser

[Jim]

Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:13:05 +0000, Jim wrote:
> ....
>> You might want to give serious thought to whether you *really* want to
>> access your bank anonymously.
> 
> I like location-anonymous access - my banks don't need to know
> where I am right now. I'm not anonymous to them - I need to
> log in anyway.
> 
>> In addition to an increased risk of a 
>> MITM attack already mentioned,
> 
> A very slight such - there is SSL. If not, run from your bank.

I chose my words carefully.  Everybody needs to asses the risk for
themselves. Some of us consider the CA system horribly broken.

>> some people (on this list but I don't 
>> have a citation handy) have reported having banks lock accounts in 
>> response to attempting to access them anonymously.
> 
> My banks per se never made problem (and why should they -
> first I log in (and three failing attempts will lock up
> the account (DoS anyone?)), and secondly for transactions
> I also need a TAN device and my card.

Different banks behave differently.  The OP reported a different
experience from yours.

I was very careful to avoid telling the OP what decision to make.

Jim