{"id":579,"date":"2006-02-15T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/westpac-internet-terms-and-conditions\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T22:24:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T12:24:20","slug":"westpac-internet-terms-and-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/westpac-internet-terms-and-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac Internet -Terms and conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westpac Internet -Terms and conditions<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems that Westpac are not only clueless when it comes to security, they also don’t yet know about how the web works.<\/p>\n

Aparrently this<\/a> violates their “Terms and conditions”. Oh, and so does this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s right. go put your mouse over those links.<\/p>\n

That’s right boys and girls – they are that retarded that they don’t want you linking to:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. their front page<\/li>\n
  2. the page listing their “terms and conditions”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Consider this a public flogging with a friggin huge clue stick.<\/p>\n

    I hope your browsers break and you can’t click on any links to anywhere on the web – you deserve it.<\/p>\n

    I bet you any 5 year old has a better understanding of the web than Westpac. You are a mentally retarded spoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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. Aparrently this violates their “Terms and conditions”. Oh, and so does this. … 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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":379,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/bblog-westpac-standards-avoidance\/","url_meta":{"origin":579,"position":0},"title":"Bblog: Westpac: standards avoidance","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-03-21","format":false,"excerpt":"Bblog: Westpac: standards avoidance Hrrm... 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