Cindy-Sue Causey: > But... bank account STILL does not work... > > It yelled javascript was not enabled and basically *almost* KICKED me > out IMMEDIATELY because it wasn't available. > > Which led to me sitting here thinking... I THOUGHT javascript was > security issue prone to the point folks are trying to wipe it from the > Net. So WHY is a bank so dependent on it that my bank's website almost > seemed to freak that javascript wasn't available???
Oh, that's easy. People at corporations care about: - making money - keeping money - reducing the amount of money they spend in order to do the first two (Most) banks are corporations. It turns out that the web is much much cheaper than a bank clerk per unit of work that each does. So web solutions replace people. It also turns out that most of the people who run banks don't know much about computers or software or the web... but they all believe that they are expert users. And as a consequence, they don't care one whit about actual security. So they'll pay extra to get logos and certificates and big green bars on browsers, but animations and smooth flows win over debuggable code every single time. Remember, every security bug is also a bug. -dsr-