Comment Re:Who thinks mobile devices are secure? (Score 1) 63
Banks think mobile devices are secure. That's why they will let you upload a check image from your bank app but not from your desktop where you scanned it at high enough resolution to see security features.
From the use of the historic concept of a "Cheque" (I assume auto-correct made that into "check") I assume you are talking about US banks? For some European banks I know, they assume a large faction of phones are compromised. They do assume the compromise is more limited on a phone and they scan for malware (as much as a single app is allowed to), but basically they just use the phone as 2nd factor where an attacker would have to compromise both devices to really gain anything. But they carefully monitor the situation and larger banks have pretty good real-time fraud detection these days.