6760608
submission
bzzfzz writes:
Popular online-only bank ING Direct's web site has been down most of the morning, returning 503s and a maintenance slide with a lame pocket protector joke. When a bricks-and-mortar banks online transaction processing system fails, most in-person transactions can still be handled (or at least batched up for later processing) using a variety of fallbacks. When a web-only bank's web site goes down, then what?
5780421
submission
bzzfzz writes:
The security of many of my online activities (banking, stock trades, FOSS activities, Slashdot, various social sites) are tied to the security of my email account. I presently pay for email hosting through one of the larger, volume-oriented hosting companies. While they do a good job and have the obvious things like SSL, I would like to find a hosting provider that offers two-factor authentication and has a more transparent security policy that makes it clear that they're riding herd over their admins. I have looked around and can't find any hosting providers that do this. Running my own server is out of the question because I can't get broadband at my house. Have any Slashdotters encountered an email hosting company that has real security?
