Comment Re:still with the java? (Score 1) 211
When Danske Bank bought Finnish Sampo Pankki, they forced it (and its customers) to move to Danske Bank group's online banking software which pretty much sucked and supposedly still sucks. And requires Java.
Sampo Pankki had one of the best online banking experience in Finland, feature- and usability-wise. It did not require Java or other sillyness from the client.
IIRC The Danske Bank applet's the client code had some obfuscation/encryption features in it but the author hadn't used it. So the code was easily opened and analyzed. One of the things they found out that the Java software collected very detailed information from the client computer and user and sent it to the server. This was information which has nothing to do with banking.
During the transition Danske Bank had a lot of problems not only in the web bank but in money transfers etc. The fiasco caused an outrage and they say even tens of thousands of customers left. This is not a small thing in a country of about 5,4 million people.
I closed all my accounts with Sampo Pankki soon after the whole thing, mainly because of the crappy web bank, Java dependency and the privacy violations. Sadly though my new bank's web bank wasn't nearly as good as Sampo Pankki had before Danske crap. But it sure beats running some spyware Java applet while doing banking online...