<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/58a1ac39-c786-4aac-abe9-25bf58ce16a0/CF324664-77E7-41F3-ACB4-90C4BCB5D574/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geeksaresexy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/"><P><IMG border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lloyds.jpg" />Here’s some food for thought if you think your online banking password is securely hidden from curious eyes at the bank.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/"><P>A British banking customer, Steve Jetley, phoned up his bank (Lloyds TSB Bank) and discovered that his password “Lloyds is pants” had been changed to “no it’s not” by a bank employee.   He had made this password after having an argument with the bank over insurance.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/"><P>He was then told he was <STRONG>banned</STRONG> from changing it back to “Lloyds is pants” or to another password “Barclays is better” (Barclays is a rival bank).   He even tried the word “censorship” but the bank employee refused that one too on the grounds it was too long.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/29/british-bank-changes-pants-password/"><P>Lloyds claims the employee has now been fired and Mr Jetley has received a full apology.   But this incident makes you wonder how many bank employees actually have full unrestricted access to your online banking password.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF324664-77E7-41F3-ACB4-90C4BCB5D574/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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