[Gllug] Alan_Cox Banks UK not secure

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Nov 10 14:30:11 UTC 2001


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Alain Williams spake:
> In my time I have worked inside several banks. I have, without exception, found
> their internal security to be cr*p.

Yes, but I doubt even the worst of banks would spend their money on a
bunch of cryptoprocessors and then give key-combination and exporting
privileges to random employees. This sort of thing (at least the
key-export priv) is so *obviously* security-sensitive...


... isn't it?

*scared*

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