Hows this for ID-anal-retentive-stupid too. LaSalle bank here in the US requires two forms if ID to cash a check written to you from somebody else. OK, I pull out my drivers license (photo ID, signature, DOB) and my Green Card (Photo ID, Thumbprint, DOB, signature.)
Now get this. They peer and examine the Green Card, look it up in their Manual Of Acceptable ID and yes, reject it. So I gave them a Credit Card instead (Name and signature only). Now my issue with that is companies here send you credit cards in the mail all-the-freaking-time that you then have to activate to get going. So my credit card could simply have been an unactivated card I signed on the back.
Security is a joke at banks. It's like the Ford Pinto problem. They'll do something if they thing THEY will lose money.
A little off topic here, but when I worked at a company, we all had Dell Laptops. I was the only one who ran a restricted User account, leaving the Administrator for installing software and little else.
A lot of commercial software I used had problems with my setup. I ended up having to add tokens to allow my User account to do various Administrator level operations because that is what certain software required. It would have been safer if those tokens had been on a per-application basis, but that's not how I understand Windows works.
So to sum up, I *still* had a relatively unsafe machine. Now if the (in this case) college people were telling me I had to run as Administrator to run their systems, I would be very unhappy and, unfortunately unless you get a very savvy set of admin guys, this is what will probably happen.
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Hows this for ID-anal-retentive-stupid too. LaSalle bank here in the US requires two forms if ID to cash a check written to you from somebody else. OK, I pull out my drivers license (photo ID, signature, DOB) and my Green Card (Photo ID, Thumbprint, DOB, signature.)
Now get this. They peer and examine the Green Card, look it up in their Manual Of Acceptable ID and yes, reject it. So I gave them a Credit Card instead (Name and signature only). Now my issue with that is companies here send you credit cards in the mail all-the-freaking-time that you then have to activate to get going. So my credit card could simply have been an unactivated card I signed on the back.
Security is a joke at banks. It's like the Ford Pinto problem. They'll do something if they thing THEY will lose money.
A little off topic here, but when I worked at a company, we all had Dell Laptops. I was the only one who ran a restricted User account, leaving the Administrator for installing software and little else. A lot of commercial software I used had problems with my setup. I ended up having to add tokens to allow my User account to do various Administrator level operations because that is what certain software required. It would have been safer if those tokens had been on a per-application basis, but that's not how I understand Windows works. So to sum up, I *still* had a relatively unsafe machine. Now if the (in this case) college people were telling me I had to run as Administrator to run their systems, I would be very unhappy and, unfortunately unless you get a very savvy set of admin guys, this is what will probably happen.