[Gllug] security check

[Alain Williams]

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

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