Banking on Stupidity

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From: Robert Spier
Subject: Banking on Stupidity
Date: 05:47 on 21 Dec 2006
My bank is instituting one of those newfangled secondary-verification
pages (where you re-verify things like your age, favorite color, or
the picture you picked.)  I'm pretty sure it doesn't do anything
useful except make it harder for me to scrape my bank account
details.  That's hateful by itself... but better....

when trying to register for the new system (required for logging in) I
get the following beautiful error:

Usernames are required for login, however, username registration is
currently unavailable.  We apologize for the inconvenience and ask
that you try again later.


ARGH!

Of course, this is also the same bank that has their test system at
http://www.mybank.com/ and production at https://www.mybank.com/

hateful people -- and hateful software.

-R

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