Egg Money Manager on Linux
Stephen Lewis
Egg recently launched a "money manager" service for customers. The e-mail
arrived and curiosity got the better of me in spite of the inbred concerns
over allowing a third-party to access bank account details on my behalf.
The website gave me a a "sorry you need to have IE installed" message. I
sent an e-mail explaining lucidly that I had neither desire nor funds to
install a Billyware OS and browser. Reply arrived pointing me to the M$
website, where I could download IE, so I explained again.
The new answer: "This facility is only available with Microsoft as we're
currently in a contract with them to run the programme. We're always
looking at ways to expand our services and are hoping to include other
users in the future."
Hmmm, must have been a good deal I thought.
Has anyone managed to get this one working from the Land of the Free? If
not, how about a little customer pressure from any Egg customers out there.
SL
Nick Kew
at the keyboard of Stephen Lewis <le...@nospam-salewis.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> The new answer: "This facility is only available with Microsoft as we're
A bogus line that should be put down.
The Internet works on open, published standards. Provided a developer
doesn't subvert those standards, the user's choice of software is
irrelevant.
Any website that tells you otherwise is either extremely clueless
or is deliberately breaking the Internet (c.f. the Halloweeen docs).
(Simple analogy, you don't get a power point that accepts Hoover
but not Electrolux appliances. The site you describe is exactly
as absurd as that).
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Tim Haynes
> Egg recently launched a "money manager" service for customers. The e-mail
> arrived and curiosity got the better of me in spite of the inbred
> concerns over allowing a third-party to access bank account details on my
> behalf.
[snip]
> The new answer: "This facility is only available with Microsoft as we're
> currently in a contract with them to run the programme. We're always
> looking at ways to expand our services and are hoping to include other
> users in the future."
>
> Hmmm, must have been a good deal I thought.
I used to have a small savings account with Egg.
Then they sent me *UCE* spam with a customized-for-me http URL in plaintext
for all to see.
Then they had the temerity to deny that it was customized to me (lots of
ID-style numbers on the end of the URL), so with another egg-using friend
amd I checked - md5sums of URL differed.
Neither I nor my financial advisor recommend Egg any more.
~Tim
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Stephen Lewis
>
> I used to have a small savings account with Egg.
>
> Then they sent me *UCE* spam with a customized-for-me http URL in
> plaintext for all to see.
>
> Then they had the temerity to deny that it was customized to me (lots of
> ID-style numbers on the end of the URL), so with another egg-using friend
> amd I checked - md5sums of URL differed.
>
> Neither I nor my financial advisor recommend Egg any more.
>
> ~Tim
Having just read an article on the latest SSL weakness, present in Konqueror
(patch released in under 2 hours) and MS IE (no patch yet, apparently no
patch planned). One can only wonder whether any apparently security
conscious company really cares that much about security when they try to
mandate the use of a browser with such a weakness.
SL