[LINK] A security question

[Tom Worthington]

On 18/12/13 08:03, Dr Bob Jansen wrote:

> ... ING and Citibank have provided me with an RSA fob to
> verify who I am in certain transactions. ...

These fobs do provide a high level of security, if they have not been 
compromised.

St George bank uses a lower cost approach, where their system sends a 
code by SMS to the customer's phone, to verify the first high value 
transfer to a new account. This has the added advantage that if the 
customer did not initiate the transaction they would know something was 
wring when they got an SMS from the bank.


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