[LINK] Phishers are getting lazy

[Robert Hart]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:23, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> I truly believe it's time for the banks to reverse their interest in
> convenience, and instead phase in purpose-built apps which don't launch in a
> browser. At least if they only accept connections from an application
> presenting the right signature, it would be a start?

Well - the only problem I have with this is that I would almost
certainly be forced to use MS Windows when connecting to my bank, as you
can bet your last dollar that they would produce an MS Windows applet,
possibly a Mac one and completely ignore Linux.

At present, I happily connect to my bank using Mozilla.

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