keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>I can't speak for all financial institutions, but ANY reduction of
>security risk
>is a good thing, and therefore any reduction of exposure to the Internet
>at
>large is generally safer. SSL on a leased line + unknown airpacket
>encoding is
>better than SSL over the Internet + unknown airpacket encoding.
There is also the marketing element.
"Look how strong our security is! Leased Line! WAH! How secure our system
is..."
(carefully ignoring the obvious gaping hole....)
Note: Of course I would not suggest that the marketing department of ANY
company on this list would EVER behave in such a way.
nick
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Received on Wed Feb 14 07:34:43 2001