I've started collecting links of sites with big ass footers
http://del.icio.us/michaelrose/bigassfooter
If you see one, please tag it "bigassfooter"
Thursday 24 January 2008
Friday 18 January 2008
Bloody Barclays
Has anyone else had to apply for a PINsentry device for Barclays Online Banking?
Despite being the victim of a cyber-fraud last year (I lost £200 to a Polish dude who somehow bought my pin from someone somewhere) I STILL think Barclays are being totally paranoid and over the top.
When asked to order the magic-device I thought it was just for setting up new payments and payees.
But no... I have to use it everytime I log in to my online banking.
Logging in is a painful, 6-step, process: entering all the usual details, numbers, random letters from password, then 4 digits from my card. I then add my pin to the device to identify myself and then have to provide the resulting 8-digit code to my online login.
Setting up a new payment requires me to enter all the details online, then all of them again on device (including their a/c number, sort code, amount) and then put a code from device back online.
It is, slightly quicker to do than to explain, but is it really necessary?
Every Barclays customer is being forced to 'upgrade' to this new plastic toy.
But won't it be hacked within time anyway? It's just an algorythm I'm guessing.
After setting up the payment I also get a text saying "a transaction has been set up, please contact us if it's fraudulent".
A little OTT?
*turning into a grumpy old man*
Despite being the victim of a cyber-fraud last year (I lost £200 to a Polish dude who somehow bought my pin from someone somewhere) I STILL think Barclays are being totally paranoid and over the top.
When asked to order the magic-device I thought it was just for setting up new payments and payees.
But no... I have to use it everytime I log in to my online banking.
Logging in is a painful, 6-step, process: entering all the usual details, numbers, random letters from password, then 4 digits from my card. I then add my pin to the device to identify myself and then have to provide the resulting 8-digit code to my online login.
Setting up a new payment requires me to enter all the details online, then all of them again on device (including their a/c number, sort code, amount) and then put a code from device back online.
It is, slightly quicker to do than to explain, but is it really necessary?
Every Barclays customer is being forced to 'upgrade' to this new plastic toy.
But won't it be hacked within time anyway? It's just an algorythm I'm guessing.
After setting up the payment I also get a text saying "a transaction has been set up, please contact us if it's fraudulent".
A little OTT?
*turning into a grumpy old man*
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Monday 7 January 2008
TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2007 - Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices - Stockhausen: Stimmung
Harmonia Mundi / 186431
"Stimmung is one of the masterpieces of the last half century... in essence it is a vast elaboration of a single six-note chord based on the overtones of the note B flat, it never seems to stale in performance, partly because of the extraordinary variety of rhythm, attack and colour that Stockhausen generates within the 51 "models" into which he divides the 70-minute piece....
This is only the third commercial recording of Stimmung.. which places the voices (three female, three male) in a more spacious acoustic than before, far closer to what you experience when Stimmung is performed live, and lending even more enchantment to this extraordinary work."
The Guardian.
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