12.SiteKey gives our customers a fairly easy way of authenticating the Bank of America Web site, said Sanjay Gupta, an e-commerce executive at the bank. It was very well received.
13.The Harvard and M.I.T. researchers, however, found that most online banking customers did not notice when the SiteKey images were absent. When respondents logged in during the study, they saw a site maintenance message on the screen where their image and phrases should have been pictured. The error message also had a conspicuous spelling mistake, further suggesting something fishy.
14.Mr. Gupta of Bank of America said he was not troubled by the results of the survey, and stressed that SiteKey had made the banks Web site more secure. He also said that the system was only a single part of a larger security blanket. Its not like were betting the bank on SiteKey, he said.
15.Most financial institutions, like Bank of America, have other ways to tell if a customer is legitimate. The banks often drop a small software program, called a cookie, onto a users PC to associate the computer with the customer. If the customer logs in from another machine, he may be asked personal questions, like his mothers maiden name.
16.Rachna Dhamija, the Harvard researcher who conducted the study, points out that swindlers can use their dummy Web sites to ask customers those personal questions. She said that the study demonstrated that site-authentication images are fundamentally flawed and, worse, might actually detract from security by giving users a false sense of confidence.
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