Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Bank of the West, please use broken Java to access our secure site!

I know and like the fact that more and more information is accessible via web sites from banks these days.  However, what drives me crazy is when they implement an engine, in this case, Java, that's been updated several times over and if your client is current in your browser, the application won't work.

What's the solution to get the site's application to work?  Downgrade your version of Java, which means uninstalling the currently installed one, locate on the super fun Oracle site to the out of date, often insecure version, and install that and try again.

This one is really great because they're using a 2009 release of Java on BotW's check imaging system.  Good stuff.  Hope the fix doesn't break other stuff!

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