http-equiv (at) excite (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
> Sunday, December 29, 2002
>
> There is a small silly hitch with CITIBANK CANADA's secured sign in
> to online banking:
>
> https://citibankcanada.ebilling.com/index.jhtml
>
> Specifically AUTOCOMPLETE="off" in the forms. It is not set.
>
> While much explanation is made about SSL connections and fancy
> digital certificates, the simplest of web programming errors
> Thwarte ! all that:
>
> CITIBANK CANADA's login allows for the Microsoft Internet Explorer
> autocomplete feature to function. What that does is remember your
> name and password. So on a public or even private machine, all one
> needs to do is, double click the "name" form and the password will
> automicrosoftly autocomplete [fill in].
> Sunday, December 29, 2002
>
> There is a small silly hitch with CITIBANK CANADA's secured sign in
> to online banking:
>
> https://citibankcanada.ebilling.com/index.jhtml
>
> Specifically AUTOCOMPLETE="off" in the forms. It is not set.
>
> While much explanation is made about SSL connections and fancy
> digital certificates, the simplest of web programming errors
> Thwarte ! all that:
>
> CITIBANK CANADA's login allows for the Microsoft Internet Explorer
> autocomplete feature to function. What that does is remember your
> name and password. So on a public or even private machine, all one
> needs to do is, double click the "name" form and the password will
> automicrosoftly autocomplete [fill in].
This is, of course, a fault in IE, not Citibank.
Cheers,
Ben.
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