[Gllug] security check

[Harry RIckards]

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Alain Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 07:58:45AM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 01:21 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:54:48PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, some of the High Street banks still persist in trying to
>>>> use Windows (often Windows 2000).  It's trivially easy to get access - I
>>>> demonstrated this to the Manager of my local bank branch, including
>>>> looking up details of HIS OWN account, without a legitimate user name or
>>>> password (I just guessed both!).  They've still done exactly nothing
>>>> about the problem, so I've moved my accounts to a bank that take
>>>> security seriously!
>>> I trust that you wrote the chairman a letter to say why you moved.
>> I certainly did, as did all of my family and many of my friends.  The
>> bankers are still not interested.  I got what appeared to be a standard
>> form letter which advised me of their intention to force me into an NDA.
>> I told them I'd be happy to meet them in court, but have heard nothing
>> since...
> 
> That is outrageous! That in itself deserves shaming them.
> 
> The trouble is that there is too great an imbalance of power between Joe Public
> and the large corporations. This is why I wrote the comment below a few days ago:
> 
> 	http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1330699&cid=29008677
> 
Seeing how badly the bank takes security, would you care to name them (I
have my suspicions already - Abbey/Santander required me to tell them
the password I wanted when signing up, I couldn't even write it down!)?

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Thanks
Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com>

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