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On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:46 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:26:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Brad Rogers writes:
> > > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such
> > > google,
> > > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam.  *None* of them
> > > are
> > > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails until something
> > > 'better'(2) comes along.
> > 
> > Some banks have found something "better".  Their emails contain a
> > link
> > which automatically opens a page on their site in your browser (they
> > assume that everyone reads email in a browser, of course).  They
> > claim
> > this is more secure.
> 
> Horrifying.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There is no point in complaining.  99% of users object to anything
> > *but*
> > html mail.  Most don't know that anything else exists.
> 
> For me, that would be a reason to change the bank.
> 
> My bank offers a standardized protocol based on public key
> cryptography.
> I can initiate a transaction (or fetch records) with a simple shell
> script.
> 
> No browser involved.

Can you name the bank? It has annoyed me for between 20 and 30 years
that banks, generally, have avoided this obvious way to conduct business
with their customers in favor of more vulnerable methods pushed by their
enterprise IT suppliers.

Regards,
Tom Dial
> 
> Cheers
> -- t

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