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Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> rob@koberg.com (Robert Koberg) writes:
>
>>>In a truly individualized situation all that's needed are URLs of the
>>>form http://www.example.com/page.html?username=elharo
>>
>>Does your bank do this? If so, which bank do you use?
>>In other words, do you care if someone who knows or guesses your
>>username can access your individualized situation?
>
>
> I wish my bank offered this, yes. Given the ID they assigned, the
> password is the only thing strongly protecting the account.
that and some random session identifier for your session, right?
>
> I can live with public IDs - none of my usernames are hard to guess, so
> they're visible doors. Without the key, the password, the door is
> meaningless.
>
> Can we get back to XML please?
just trying to fit in :)
> I wrote a book on XML and a book on
> Cookies, but I don't think they mix very well.
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