[shameless plug] Re: [clug] New script based Phishing makes Windows even less safe.

[Alex Satrapa]

On 9 Nov 2004, at 11:34, Daniel McNamara wrote:

> Whilst banks should make their Internet banking portals as OS 
> independent as possible there are quite few issues behind the scenes 
> that people generally don't pay attention to ( security, support, 
> cost, contractors, management requirements etc). Banks are slowly 
> getting the idea they need to support other OS's and like any large 
> organisation change will take a while (immutable law of business).

The Credit Union Of Canberra uses a plain HTML over TLS internet 
banking system. They don't yet use one-time-pad systems, but not many 
banks in Australia are that switched on just yet.

The CUoC was previously (years ago) using a Java applet, which never 
quite worked properly on anything except IE. Eventually (after enough 
complaints?), they switched over to the plain-web banking system we 
have now. It works better, looks nicer, and runs faster than the old 
system. I like it.

The best bit is, it works just as well on any browser that I use - 
Microsoft IE, Netscape 4.7, Mozilla 1.x, Firefox, OmniWeb, Safari and 
even iCab. I haven't tried it in Lynx yet.

Regards
Alex

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we 
can solve them."  --Isaac Asimov
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