[Wylug-discuss] A Business Bank that works because Alliance and Leicester doesn't.

[Stephen Patterson]

On 11 Oct 07, Chris Davies (chris at roaima.co.uk) wrote:
> How many people /really/ check for the "padlock" on their banking website 
> AND that they haven't mistyped the URL (hsbc vs hbsc for example)? 
> Especially as some of these banks force users to access their accounts via 
> a separate window that hides the address bar (and hence one can't see the 
> httpS prefix). Hello HSBC if you're listening.

That reminds me... I need to phone A&L and give them a BOFH-whipping for
sometimes not having a padlock there.

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