Re: FN-FORUM: Which bank?

date posted 21st January 2007 20:08

On Saturday 20 Jan 2007 11:47 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Quoting Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > On Friday 19 Jan 2007 11:02 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >> Saying that, I feel more secure with my Finnish bank, which requires=
a
> >> unique password every time I log in (mostly eliminating exploatiatio=
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> >> my data mining etc). The passwords are sent out by mail (by the bank=
)
> >> and you get 50 or so in one go. Different pin every time you log in.
> >> Might seem like a faff on to some, but I feel pretty secure.
> >
> > Works just fine until your machine gets Trojaned:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6279561.stm
>
> Haha, yep, that's my bank alright. Still, i'm not silly enough to
> download anything my "bank" asks me to (as I believe no bank would
> ever ask a customer to download anything) so I still feel pretty safe.

Yes, but even visiting respectable websites has, in the past, led to=20
compromised machines:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1730877,00.asp