On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a > workaround. This may only apply to us U.S. folks. Banks and credit > card company are in the process of changing the way you log into a > website. It "registers" your computer when you sign up as a security > "feature". Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux and I suspect it > doesn't work on a Mac either. I'm not sure, nor can I find out, what it > uses to "register" my computer. It may be a CPU serial number or > something like that.
Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated. Your link seems to work fine in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror. I am talking about accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies and IP address that they use to identify your computer. > I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use Seamonkey. > I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses winders XP and > Seamonkey to see if it works up there. I think that it may have something to do with the way you have configured your cookies. Invariably they need you to accept 'referrer logging' and third party cookies. This is because they most often than not use a different server to log who the users are. > Any ideas?? Am I cooked? I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need to change your cookie policy on the browser in question. PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything other than MSIE. This can in most cases be bypassed by setting your browser to be identified as IE (it returns the appropriate headers to the server once you set it up to do so). -- Regards, Mick
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