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I blame the banks.

I blame the banks.

Posted Dec 20, 2008 11:17 UTC (Sat) by dwmw2 (subscriber, #2063)
In reply to: I blame the banks. by rwmj
Parent article: "Vishing" advisory targets Asterisk

"My inquiry which prompted the call was to ask when they might actually implement something secure, such as credit card device that generates one-time keys."
So, not a conversation for which they actually needed to authenticate you at all. Thus, they were demonstrating an even more fundamental lack of clue about security than we originally thought...


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I blame the banks.

Posted Dec 20, 2008 11:23 UTC (Sat) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

I hadn't thought about that actually, but yeah, they're even more stupid than we thought :-)

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