Monday, February 28, 2005
Solutions to net security fears
With the ever-increasing risk of attacks and phising scams, it was with some incredulity that I saw, when I logged on to my e-banking with a major bank (no names, no pack drill, but think of black horses and you get the idea) and they asked me to enter my password so that they could communicate with me via email. Now, one of the reasons I've not been scammed online (as far as I know) is because I know my bank won't email me to ask me to verify my address or something - and yet here they are wanting me to sign up for just such a service. Fine if it had encryption so that only I could receive it - but this for open email communication. Not my idea of a sensible approach. If it's important, they'll ring me - or send the boys round - but at least they won't get all my details off the net.
With the ever-increasing risk of attacks and phising scams, it was with some incredulity that I saw, when I logged on to my e-banking with a major bank (no names, no pack drill, but think of black horses and you get the idea) and they asked me to enter my password so that they could communicate with me via email. Now, one of the reasons I've not been scammed online (as far as I know) is because I know my bank won't email me to ask me to verify my address or something - and yet here they are wanting me to sign up for just such a service. Fine if it had encryption so that only I could receive it - but this for open email communication. Not my idea of a sensible approach. If it's important, they'll ring me - or send the boys round - but at least they won't get all my details off the net.
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