yorolpal
But my password is that symbol Prince used to use when he was the artist formerly known as Prince. I have a special custom key made on all my keyboards that will type it. What should I do????

My password, courtesy of Peter Lowenbrau Griffin:
 

I hear you Paulo.
 
It's a matter of necessity rather than convenience for me, being in a rural location and doing the kind of work I do means that I'm nowhere near a computer during the working day (unless I come home for lunch), so to be able to log-in and move money from my business account to the current account (for example) at 7:30am is a real plus for me, there's no way I could get to the bank to do that, nor would I have time to phone them and go through the endless security rigmarole.
 
Likewise I can get home in the evening and check if a customer has paid me by BACS, then use that to pay bills in my own time.
 
Of course, if the power or broadband goes down..I'm screwed...
 
What you describe has pretty much come to pass anyway, the cashiers and even the manager, in my local branch have very little control over my transactions any more, and I've noticed that happening gradually over the last 10 years. They're really just drones with little or no decision making power.

i have decided at this point, for now,
to simply boycott ebay.
 
 

paulo
Online banking ? No thanks. People really need to wake up to what they are doing when putting personal information online however "secure" it's claimed to be.

I can tell you that financial institutions generally take security far more seriously than most other companies.
 
Part of the problem for most companies is management and even technical administrators often don't understand the threats, take security seriously and are unwilling to spend time and resources on it. 

drewfx1

paulo
Online banking ? No thanks. People really need to wake up to what they are doing when putting personal information online however "secure" it's claimed to be.

I can tell you that financial institutions generally take security far more seriously than most other companies.
 
Part of the problem for most companies is management and even technical administrators often don't understand the threats, take security seriously and are unwilling to spend time and resources on it. 

That's only fair since we rarely take management seriously. 

drewfx1

paulo
Online banking ? No thanks. People really need to wake up to what they are doing when putting personal information online however "secure" it's claimed to be.

I can tell you that financial institutions generally take security far more seriously than most other companies.
 
Part of the problem for most companies is management and even technical administrators often don't understand the threats, take security seriously and are unwilling to spend time and resources on it. 

Maybe they do, but seing as they've pretty much proven that much of the trust the general public placed in them was in fact largely misplaced, I won't be taking the chance. As I said in my later post, it's not the only reason I resist.

jamesg1213
I hear you Paulo.
 
It's a matter of necessity rather than convenience for me, being in a rural location and doing the kind of work I do means that I'm nowhere near a computer during the working day (unless I come home for lunch), so to be able to log-in and move money from my business account to the current account (for example) at 7:30am is a real plus for me, there's no way I could get to the bank to do that, nor would I have time to phone them and go through the endless security rigmarole.
 
Likewise I can get home in the evening and check if a customer has paid me by BACS, then use that to pay bills in my own time.
 
Of course, if the power or broadband goes down..I'm screwed...
 
What you describe has pretty much come to pass anyway, the cashiers and even the manager, in my local branch have very little control over my transactions any more, and I've noticed that happening gradually over the last 10 years. They're really just drones with little or no decision making power.

 
Hope your power supplier isn't SSE then - you could be waiting a long time for a response. I know what you mean about the dwindling lack of authority at branch level - I've seen that in action too.

paulo
Maybe they do, but seing as they've pretty much proven that much of the trust the general public placed in them was in fact largely misplaced, I won't be taking the chance. 

Keep in mind, it's not so much our money that they're worried about protecting. 

drewfx1

paulo
Maybe they do, but seing as they've pretty much proven that much of the trust the general public placed in them was in fact largely misplaced, I won't be taking the chance. 

Keep in mind, it's not so much our money that they're worried about protecting. 

Exactly. You can bet your life that if the bank vault contained 50% our money and 50% theirs and someone got in and robbed half of the money that it would turn out that unfortunately for us it was our half that got stolen. ;)

Just lock your credit and you're almost totally protected... as protected as you can be anyway.
http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-finance-credit/credit-freeze-and-thaw-guide/nFbL/
http://www.clarkhoward.com/categories/personal-finance-credit/
 
J