[Gllug] Re: Any bank not in the dark ages?

[Mike Leigh]

Maybe the letters a to z and numerals 0 to 9 are used to be compatible with
mobile phones and normal phone keypads.  Of course this does mean the lack
of # and * that could be used.  But then again I could be reading too much
into this.

My personal pet peev is companies that state your password must be between 6
and 8 chars and must be lowercase etc...talk about making it easier for a
brute force attack by really limiting the number of possibilities.

Has anyone ever used the nochex service ?  I signed up and then the login
page made me use the mouse to physically enter a numeric security code
everytime I login.  This is really really annoying and their security team
told me this would never change.  Its supposed to stop key loggers knowing
what numbers you entered.  I even pointed out to them that you can use the
tab key and press the down arrow x times or press the digit once you have
selected the field.  I am still awaiting a response.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert P. McKenzie [mailto:rmckenzi at rpmdp.com]
Sent: 20 August 2004 14:15
To: Greater London Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re: Any bank not in the dark ages?


Robert P. McKenzie wrote:

> Ashley Evans wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'd move back to First Direct anytime but Lloyds treat me quite well 
>> with their select account ( 5 pounds per month for AA cover (me, not 
>> me car :) and various other not so useful bits including mobile phone 
>> insurance. Quite a bargin and I've never had any trouble with their 
>> online banking either.  They only support  IE and "a few versions of 
>> Netscape" for their insurance services. Why, oh why.
> 
> 
> I have a similar deal with Halifax.  Their online banking works fine 
> with Mozilla, except the Stock investment area.. for some reason it's 
> done in some weird java/javascript thing that just doesn't work in 
> Mozilla, IE and perhaps Netscape, but I don't use those.

Sorry, sent that too early, I also ment to add, the only problems I've ever
had 
is the fact that your password can ONLY be numbers and letters, no other 
characters, to me that's just stupid.

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