{"id":568,"date":"2006-02-13T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/westpac-has-no-clue-time-to-switch-banks\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T22:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T12:24:55","slug":"westpac-has-no-clue-time-to-switch-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/westpac-has-no-clue-time-to-switch-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac has no clue. Time to switch banks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westpac online – Sign In<\/a><\/p>\n

They’ve gone ahead and been idiots. On screen, mouse activated big keyboard. Signing into online banking when other people are even remotely around (think conference, think at home, think anywhere really) is no longer secure.<\/p>\n

Go get a clue Westpac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Westpac online – Sign In They’ve gone ahead and been idiots. On screen, mouse activated big keyboard. Signing into online banking when other people are even remotely around (think conference, think at home, think anywhere really) is no longer secure. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-9a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":579,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/westpac-internet-terms-and-conditions\/","url_meta":{"origin":568,"position":0},"title":"Westpac Internet -Terms and conditions","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-02-15","format":false,"excerpt":"Westpac Internet -Terms and conditions It seems that Westpac are not only clueless when it comes to security, they also don't yet know about how the web works. 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