On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:02:36PM +1000, Roland Turner wrote:
> Rick Welykochy wrote:
> >
> > David wrote:
> >
> > > It's about the only thing Westpac gets right. Their
> > > internet banking runs on any late model netscrape, on any platform
> > > (Win/Mac/Unix) - so if Westpac can do it, why can't the others?
> >
> > Two cheers here. Westpac's online banking works fine with a
> > Netscape 4.7+ or IE 5.0+ browser. On Linux and 'Doze.
> > Only Javascript and a couple of cookies are required ...
> > nothing fancy.
>
> Comm Bank doesn't even require cookies. I suspect that their initial
> Netbank application a few years ago (Windows only) generated so many
> support requests from Windows users, and what-about-me's from Mac/UNIX
> users that they finally chose to switch to a plain-vanilla (and
> reasonbly fast, few graphics) web interface. It's great.
Indeed. Considering I helped to write their first cut and then refused
to use it because it wouldn't run on Linux.
Actually that frist version was pretty fundamentally flawed, security
wise. Think XOR based crypto. Think DES based session keys.
I think you get the idea.
Anand
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