And it can run on mobile phones as well so you don't have to carry around a usb stick, or worry plugging a usb stick into an office PC where the port is disabled. I use dropbox to keep it synchronised between machines.
Matt
It is with Nationwide and Smile.
Windoze, yes, but wifi? It's over an https connection ...
Coventry BS, as well as typing 3 characters (not drop down menu) from your password give you a grid card from which you must enter the numbers at 3 positions. A bit like playing battleships.
MBQ
Man at B&Q :
ING Direct require you to enter three specified characters from your PIN, and your memorable date. I say "enter" but what you're given is an on-screen numeric keypad to click with the mouse. For extra entertainment value the ten buttons have been swapped around at random.
In message , Mike Barnes writes
NHS.net - the NHS email system uses an on screen keyboard as well.
The password is in two parts, IIRC one entered using the machine keyboard and one entered using the mouse and an on screen keyboard
Is that the same wonderful system my missus has to use... she gets emailed huge PDF files which she's expected to print out before meetings, only the system doesn't let her open attachments to print them out, each page of the document has to be laboriously opened in a browser and printed separately. Takes for ever...
Yes that's a good plan. Many thanks everyone for the pointers.
As if online security wasn't enough I've just noticed that the PO is tied to the bank of Ireland ;-)
Rob
That reminds me of
Sorry to join in late but that's the second comment about wifi. Why is wifi so bad in this case? Is it only a problem if it isn't encrypted or has the encryption been compromised?
In article , Fred scribeth thus
Wi-fi is usually set to WEP encryption which is well not that secure. Newer and stronger versions such as WPA2 and AES TIPK are much better but very few people seem to be able to set 'em up!..
Thats of course assuming that a hacker is in wireless range of your wi-fi point of course!...
That may once have been true, but not for a while now.
So, a hacker can listen to your wifi. What are they going to do with the SSL stream between the browser and server?
In message , tony sayer writes
I'm not sure that they are 'usually' set to WEP nowadays. AFAICR my Mums Freeserve (as it was then) came setup with a WPA key, ditto my FIL's Tiscali one. Same for out )2 router, but I can't remember.
Even then surely the link twixt browser and bank server is using https and is encrypted anyway.
Hanging around outside someones house to hack into their wifi on the off chance you might be able to get their banking details or somesuch doesn't seem a very fruitful way of going about things when you can sit in the warm and send out endless numbers of Trojan laden emails.
This all just seems to be another area where you need to consider the risks and manage them. Yep ok, running windows is a bit of a risk, you might get infected with a virus and you details might be captured. but you can maange that risk to a large extent.
But using you card in an ATM or in your local garage , or in a restaurant is also a risk . And while I'm not aware of anyone personally who has their bank login details compromised, a number of friends and family have had their cards details compromised in some way. at least some cases certainly not because of internet use.
But https uses TLS/SSL which in turn can select less secure algorithms.
But I agree that an actual successful attack is very unlikely.
I know many people who have had cards skimmed or their credit card compromised and their accounts were subsequently used fraudulently (this includes myself). None of them had a their internet login details captured.
Load netstumbler on your laptop have a drive around your area .. enjoy;)...
In message , chris French wrote
I can currently "see" 10 wireless networks local to me
1 is totally unsecured 2 are WAP2 All the others are WARPAlan gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
BT OpenZone, by any chance? With another BT-named network with exactly the same strength?
WARP?
In article , Alan scribeth thus
Must be fast ones then;)..
If they can get a cleverly crafted webpage to access your router (how many are not 192.168.0.1?) and you've left the admin password on factory setting (Rupert's empire uses the highly secure "sky" as the router password) then they could make your router (which will be the DHCP server for 99% of home users) allocate your PC a hooky DNS server, which could divert
OK, not a WiFi specific hack ...
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