Today’s featured website: European Visa Online
I visited this site for the first time today and was greeted with this page.
Seriously?
In case you’re curious, I’m running firefox 3.6.3.
Web developers and designers have scorned and mocked IE 6 for years now due to hoards of bugs and non-compliant behavior that cause endless development headaches.
However, IE 6 rose to a new level of infamy earlier this year when it turned out to be the culprit behind the Operation Aurora exploits, which led to Google and others to officially drop support for the browser due to security risks.
It also led to many European governments, such as Germany, France, and nearly the UK, to officially urge its citizens to switch browsers.
That made this page all the more surprising since it came from the European branch of Visa.
Then again, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
One of the very next pages prevented me from changing my initial password because the password generated by KeePass with the default settings was too long….that’s right….too long to meet their password validation rules.
I easily have over 100 passwords in my password database and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had this problem.
It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the area of security, especially considering that Visa is one of the most prominent and ubiquitous financial institution around.
Sigh…
Popularity: 13% [?]
