[Tfug] Ack! I suddenly became afraid of flying.

Anthony Hess tfug@tfug.org
Tue Jan 28 12:31:02 2003


You have the wrong attitude here - you would think you would WANT your bank
to lose all your ATM withdrawals

:)

Tony

On 1/28/03 12:25 PM, "Leo Przybylski" <leo@leosandbox.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the information. I was thinking of switching to Bank of
> America, but now I am not so sure.
> 
> Are you saying BofA uses Oracle/Sun/EMC?
> 
> Somehow, I doubt if I told BofA anything about Citigroup, they would
> listen to me. Probably give me a security escort  back to wherever I
> came from.
> 
> -Leo Przybylski
> http://foopan.leosandbox.org
> http://grow.arizona.edu
> 
> Harry McGregor wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Leo Przybylski wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> About the banks, Citigroup and its affiliates (Wells Fargo, Norwest
>>> Financial, Citibank, etc...) all use Oracle for Solaris running on Sun
>>> Enterprise systems with Veritas backups. It's not GNU software, but no
>>> WORM's included.
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> Yea, tell that to Bank of America...  Lost over 1.5M USD in untracked ATM
>> transactions last I read.
>> 
>> Harry