[Tfug] [TFUG] Bank of America e-mail

[andy]

Be careful with E*trade, they are up to their neck in sub-prime
investments and once mark-to-market forces really take over they may end
up a casualty.

Andy

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 23:39 -0700, erich wrote:
> OK,
>       I use BofA, (Not for long, I'm transitioning to E*trade), and what
> I have
> bookmarked is:
> 
>          
> http://www.bankofamerica.com/index.cfm?page_msg=signoff&showstatic=no
> 
>       I click this link, and immediately it goes to SSL. Whereupon I
> type my login
> & password. It has a big complicated set of web pages, with different URL's.
> Some are less secure than others.
> 
>                                                                                              
> Erich
> 
> Jude Nelson wrote:
> 
> >Hey guys,
> >
> >I recently submitted a complaint to Bank of America regarding the fact
> >that their front page (read: the page where you enter your Bank ID to
> >access your account) has insecure elements on the page.  Here's the
> >excerpt from their response:
> >
> > - While the Online ID and Passcode are presented in web form fields
> >over an unencrypted channel, when you type the Online ID only you can
> >see the information you type and the Passcode is displayed as asterisks.
> >
> >Yeah. Right.
> >
> >Jude
> >
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