On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Anonymous wrote: . . .
It's really not a good time to attempt to prop these guys up, when every economy in the world is suffering acutely from their colossal and aggregate incompetence.
Not to mention the situations where available intelligence was used to do various cheats. The level of skill is one necessary aspect to evaluate, the uses of whatever skill level may exist is another and separable aspect. (And then there are the cases where people with public reputations for great intelligence in the financial industry have later been found to be anyhow mainly bold cheats.)
A bank forward-thinking enough to cater to nerds with ssh for transactions and openpgp for statements would spend the least amount on security
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Moreover, an SSH server wouldn't drag the bank into the vicious pattern of chasing the shiny.. e.g. there would not be a need to work on improving the smoothness of animations that must glide accross the screen.
I wonder if banks offer secure communication services to premium cutomers these day, eg high-wealth customers of regular or private banks. I am surprised that is not a market niche being pursued AFAIK, in which spending directly on developing usable and private processes could be distinctive in the market. The individuals in that category whom I have known enough to have some little awareness of their attitudes about financial communications security have seemed not to have such services available from their banks. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
