Re: Feature Request: Financial and Secure sites

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, J Thompson wrote:

> I would like to STRONGLY second Paul's request, for precisely the same 
> reasons.
>
> Not that this is the right forum to do anything about it, but I also agree 
> that seeing a "security picture" chosen from their "album" is nowhere near as 
> useful as being able to upload a picture unique to me, such as my wife, kids, 
> house, a vacation spot, whatever.

I'm always amused by these security pictures that are supposed to verify 
that you're on the correct site. What's to stop someone from just logging 
into the site in the background and then forwarding the security image 
back to you?

--Quentin

>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:29:15 -0400
>> From: Paul List Hess <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Feature Request:  Financial and Secure sites
>> To: [email protected]
>> Message-ID: <p0623090ac14162862341@[192.168.0.30]>
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>> 
>> Many financial sites (brokers, credit cards, banks) now have two screen 
>> login pages where you first input your username, then go to another page, 
>> then type in your password. 
>> I find this a hassle rather than more secure, and I prefer to manage my 
>> security with my keychain settings.  Can OmniWeb recognize these kinds of 
>> sites (or have me designate them) and then fill in my information on each 
>> screen from the keychain?
>> 
>> OT peeve:  These sites also seem to use a "secure picture" that I'm 
>> supposed to recognize to know whether to trust them.  How am I supposed to 
>> remember all those secure pictures and which ones go with which site?  The 
>> only way I see that being an actual benefit would be if I could upload a 
>> picture (e.g. my photo) and then I would definitely recognize it.
>
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