01 Dec, 2008

More Postbank Secure Code annoyances

Technical — 1 December 2008, 14:13

 Remember my previous post on this topic. I went back to the postbank site to see if things had improved. Turns out they have not. Here is a screenshot from the page explaining the SecureCode. Its all about the footnote (the last line on this screenshot).
 
 
Postbank December
The last line reads: 
Caution: When you click on this link you will be lead to a website that has no Postbank address. Check wether the address starts with https://postbank.arcot.com. With that you will have a safe connection to register your Secure code 
 
 
I will not be repeating my argument that notifying, from a non-http- secured page, to a https page breaks users expectation (why would you trust postbank.arcot.com over of postbank.secure-bank-services.com). Instead, I want to highlight that if you click on the link that displays "https://postbank.arcot.com/" you actually get redirected via a non secured link like  http://www.postbank.nl/ing/pp/page/external_link/redirect/0,3042,1859_180483_849292156,00.html?ExternalLinkId=849292156
 
Again, that is unnecessarily  complex and confusing for users.
 
Controleer of het adres begint met <a class="body_text_link" href="https://www.trend-watcher.org/JavaScript:openWin('/ing/pp/page/external_link/redirect/0,3042,1859_180483_849292156,00.html?ExternalLinkId=849292156','arcot','scrollbars=yes,left=10,top=10,location=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,status=yes,height=600,width=800');" target="_top" onclick="linkCode(this,'o','https://postbank.arcot.com - 849292156','849292156');">https://postbank.arcot.com</a>. Hiermee heeft u een veilige verbinding om uw SecureCode te registreren.  
 
 

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