Bank websites

[Mark Gardner]

My Favorite bank is www.digitalfederalcreditunion.com or simply dcu.org

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Thu, 10/7/10, Billy Crook <billycrook> wrote:
>
> > Subject: Re: Bank websites
> > Cc: "KCLUG" <kclug at kclug.org>
> > Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 1:44 PM
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 14:56, Justin
> > wrote:
> >
> > >>When was the last time you received a document
> > containing sensitive information that was encrypted?  Now
> > how many of those
> > >>documents came through the USPS unencrypted?  I
> > have more confidence in the reliability and secrecy of email
> > than USPS mail.
> > > I've received lots of documents via HTTPS that were
> > encrypted.
> >
> > No.  You have not.  You can not receive documents
> > over HTTPS.
>
> Yes you can! It's called push technology or HTTP push. Just because most
> documents are pull doesn't mean you can't push documents. I do it all the
> time, in a document generation web service I wrote for a client. That's also
> part of what makes Ajax work. Any CGI service can do it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology
>
> I regularly receive documents in email through a a secure HTTPS webmail
> interface. I haven't analyzed the code to say whether it uses push or pull
> technology. So can't speak to that application. But it is certainly
> possible. But it probably is using polling to make a pull.
>
> HTML5 has added more features to the push technology.
>
> Jack
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   ~ Mark
         Gardner ~
If it were easy everyone would do it.  Hard is what keeps out the riffraff.
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