Bunq is using secure connections where they also check the certificate thumbprint to prevent men in the middle.

That etc is more then enough for security i guess. What is next? Bunq OS :-)

That's not something for a banking app

It’s gonna be a ‘no’ from me, sorry. If you want to set up a tunnelled connection to your bank, why not just get a VPN service or set up a server yourself?

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I don’t see this as bunq’s responsibility. bunq offers a safe haven in the app, but if you want to be secure on a public WiFi network then that is a completely different expertise.

VPN is not something that’s should be implemented per app. The bunq app itself already uses secured connections to their infrastructure in AWS. If you want VPN that’s something you need to do yourself, since it will effect your phone’s networking.

But what if the vpn server get hacked or ddos

All the Bunq clients are in danger.

My suggestion is buy a good router with vpn on it ( like a netgear for example )

Or rent one like tunnel bear

@all, it is bunq, not bank 😉

No, I do not see why bunq would need to implement this if it is possible to use it outside the bunq app. They might be able to set it up like Windscribe did (the login process and app itself uses the VPN connection, others don't).

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Who cares if the owner of the public wireless network can see that you sent X bytes to and received Y bytes from bunq? People worry too much :) There will never come a day where you'll go: [facepalm] I shouldn't have bunqed without additional protection on that shady public network after a few beers too many. Really.

VPN is to prevent people on open WiFi networks from being able to look at your traffic. bunq already does this through different technologies such as SSL encryption and certificate validation. You should remember that VPN is just means to an end and bunq already covered that one for you.

A mitm faking a wifi hotspot can pretend to be bunq and transparently forward the traffic to the real bunq platform and back to the client. I don’t know exactly how much you can see that way, but more than just the bandwidth usage. At least you can track devices that talk to bunq. Combined with non-bunq traffic you may find the person and other gifts. There is so much more to a person than just their money.

Using VPN is rarely a bad idea; unless you choose a (paid) service that you can’t control yourself, which is all of them. Those are only useful to hide your home IP from the sites you visit. Expect them to look into your traffic, even when they promise not to.. At the moment running your own VPN service from home or your own server/vps is pretty much the only way to protect your traffic a bit more than just streaming raw data over the air. However, all software is buggy including the TLS libs everyone is using to encrypt the traffic. Just because there may not be any reports that doesn’t mean the software is completely secure. Nothing is.

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Definitely no. Do you know how a VPN works??? Let’s say they do have a VPN service. It means all your traffic (including Netflix) will go through it. Why would you need that?!

Why a VPN? You are not anonymous with bunq and all connections are encrypted, a VPN Has no use, unless you do not want your ISP to know you use bunq. And if you still want a VPN you should set it up in Android, or Third party apps that only force specific apps to use a VPN.

And if you use SSL connections through a unsafe wifi hotspot like one made with wireshark, all data is encrypted, you only see IP adresses, a VPN would only mask those adresses since all traffic is going through that VPN.