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It's a little thing, but if we are to have a hope of educating users to protect themselves online that reputable sites don't behave just like the fraudsters.
Here's a quick spot of fuckwittery from Harvard Business Review.
Tagged: Rants, Fuckwittage, Security, Technology, Web
Posted at 05:29 EST, 21st February 2008.
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Argh.
The front page of Halifax's online banking has an extravagantly stupid 'feature'.
Somehow, they have managed to publish their warnings about phishing attacks so that they look like, well, a bit of a phishing attack!
Tagged: Rants, Fuckwittage, Security, Technology, Web
Posted at 14:23 EST, 5th February 2008.
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While using my Halifax Visa card online recently, I bumped into the Verified by Visa programme.
It's a nice idea, in theory, but the implementation I saw was woeful. It was depressingly similar to a phishing attack, warmly assuring me about security by chatting about it in the Web page, while hiding the parts of my browser that can tell me that more sensibly.
Like most geeks, I try and educate my less geeky family and friends about how to behave safely with technology. Things like this make that job harder.
Update at 17:51 EDT, 21st April 2007 – Follow-up: Guardian coverage
Tagged: Rants, Business, Fuckwittage, Security, Technology, Web
Posted at 11:22 EDT, 31st March 2007.