Re: Banking on Stupidity

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From: Robert Spier
Subject: Re: Banking on Stupidity
Date: 07:30 on 21 Dec 2006
At Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:33:26 -0800,
David King wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> At least it didn't see only the first error or only the second error
> and bail out (for instance, by simply replying that a username is
> required, or only that the registration system is unavailable).
> Sounds like this was planned downtime, but if it was, they would have
> done well to list that schedule on the error page.

They're usually pretty good at announcing planned downtime.  This
doesn't appear to be one.  Of course, I can't log in to check my
account at all right now, and because this is a credit union, they
don't have 24/7 phone people.  Sigh.

> 
> > 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/
> 
> ...wow. Does http:.../ at least redirect to https:.../ ?

Oooh, it does now.

It used to be that http:// showed a username and password box
(identical to the one on https) -- except your username and password
didn't work.

But now http:// has a link to https:// instead of a field.  Progress!
That's only been an issue for 5 years.

> 
> > hateful people -- and hateful software.
There's stuff above here

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