[Gllug] natwest fantasticness

[Peter Childs]

Richard Jones wrote:

>I should _hope_ that Natwest works with Mozilla.  Considering all the
>horrible unpatched flaws in IE and Windows, there's no possible way
>they can any more claim that IE is "more secure".
>
>For the record, the Halifax banking service works with just about
>everything I've thrown at it.  Although the website looks like it was
>put together by colour-blind monkeys doing an introductory web-design
>class.  Goodness only knows what the security behind the thing is
>like.
>
>Rich.
>
>  
>
    Computer security is always a bit of a joke anyway. Any on-line 
banking is only has secure as the weakest link. Usally the password 
belonging to the person who uses a simple password like their first name 
and then writes it down just to make sure its public knowledge.
    Its like this new Chip and Pin. If thats more secure than a personal 
thing like a signiture then I'm not a computer programmer. In this age 
where we think seriously of using a 128 bit encription the creditcard 
company go and use a 10bit key! Rather than a much large key that they 
were using before ie somones signiture. True passwords are not much 
stronger than a pin but they are usally twice the length with twice the 
number of different letters.
    Sorry for stating my opions but the adverts were beginning to get on 
my nerves.

Peter Childs
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