Re: And some folk in the banking industry wonder why we have phishing...

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Dude VanWinkle to Douglas F. Calvert:

> > What does this have to do with phishing?
>
> Cuz you would have to have come directly from a Phish Concert to be
> able to make a mistake like that.

I guess that is one possible take on it, but not what I had in mind...

My (obtuse) point was, if the banking industry (and specifically the 
"advanced" financial services part of it in which this particular piece 
of Mizuho operates) runs with such stupidly and incompetently designed 
systems as to allow something so obviously borked to happen (Mizuho 
placed an order to sell not only more shares than it had to know it 
owned, but more shares than the stock exchange had to know were 
available to Mizuho -- according to the article Mizuho's sell order 
"represented 41 times the number of outstanding shares of recruitment 
firm J-Com"...), it is incomprehensible that phishing MIGHT NOT exist 
AND WORK.

Of course, given that such obviously broken systems clearly do exist 
inside the banking industry, it is not actually incomprehensible that 
some folk in the banking industry still find at the least the success 
of phishing difficult to grasp, hence the ironic tone of my chosen 
Subject: line...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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