Re: Feature Request: Financial and Secure sites

I had to shut an account down due to unauthorized on-line  
access......got an email (from the bank, not a phisher) saying that  
the email address associated with my account had changed.  Called the  
bank using a known-good number, and in fact it had been changed--shut  
down the account then.  Still under investigation.

So something of a 2-key system like a user-provided picture would be  
better than a "feel-good" thing like a pilferable picture.


Just to keep it on-topic, hope that OG is able to support Keychain  
access as has been discussed in previous posts.

Later, JP

On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Quentin Smith wrote:

> 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]>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> J Thompson
>>
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>>
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