From: Ira Abramov (Lists-Linux-IL_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 31 Aug 2004 - 10:12:21 IDT
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Tue, 31 Aug:
>
> They didn't give me much more, but a little more. See
> http://www.consumer.org.il/
>
> I have closed my account with Hayashir Harishon due to their indifferent
> behavior. MAYBE Leumi will be better.
well, I'm sorry that of all the banks you could have chosen you went for
the Yashir's big daddy, I have been a customer of theirs for the last 14
years but for the last 5 years they have annoyed me several times with
horrible service and actual intentional damage that I believe cost me
several hundred if not almost 2000 shekels. I have therefore decided to
leave this bank myself (I have moved to a different branch but It was just
a new and different set of agrevations), and am looking these days
at the options. It is quite possible that none of the big banks will
win but instead one of the smaller ones. Israel has several tiny banks
that are said to have good personal service and low-to-no comission
fees. They live happily with the bits interest of your money, as they
should, not charging you dozens of shekels for a few printed pages of
reports, and on the other hand they don't launch multimillion dollar
campaigns on TV out of my pocket. They may have poor web access or none,
but I find the level of the online banking systems in Israel lacking in
so many ways it's really sad.
As a side note, I worked for a while with a company that did security
audits to production online banking systems, and heard horror stories
that caused me to give up the idea of using online banking as a whole.
For instance, one of the big banks comissioned a zero-knowledge audit
(no access to backend sources and such, only crack attempts through
regular Internet access), after a while they set a meeting with the
auditor, who opened the meeting by logging into his personal bank
account (as he happend to be a customer of that bank). "What are you
demonstrating?" asked one of the bank's employees, and the answer came
"well, I am logged in to my bank account. I don't have a password for
that account, but that's only half the problem. the other half is that I
never asked to have online access to it. with even the most basic
security design, it should never have been accesible to the web front
end, with or without a password!!", and that was just the beginning...
I think I actually PREFFER a bank with no online access these days...
-- A fruitcake dessert short of a meal Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il
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