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Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Sat Dec 3 21:17:42 2005
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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 13:07:13 -0800
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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
At 11:05 PM -0500 12/2/05, dan@geer.org wrote:
>You know, I'd wonder how many people on this
>list use or have used online banking.
>
>To start the ball rolling, I have not and won't.
I have, and it's nice for making Quicken data entry faster, but
that's about all. The rest gives me the willies when I see the
security clue of the folks running the site.
FWIW, I have never had a problem changing my password to something
very long and all-alphabetic, even if I don't include "at least one
capital letter and one digit" or whatever the CYA rules for passwords
are these days.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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