Posted by Vince Wadhwani on Feb 07, 2008

I was pretty stunned today when I signed up for Online Banking at SunTrust to find out that their corporate version for small business wouldn't work with Firefox. This has been the case since at least 2005 when I last interacted with them so it's not a new problem. Message to SunTrust: There are more banks than web browsers. I am not changing to Windows and using IE just because you can't get your act together.

Now the truly funny thing is that they claim it's because of security. I won't bother linking to all the security flaws related to IE6 (which is supported) or IE7. Readers of this blog surely know how ridiculous of a claim this is. If that's not enough, check out the password requirements for your account:

Passwords must be 6 to 20 characters in length, may contain letters and/or numbers, and cannot include spaces or special characters

No special characters? How long would it take a password cracker to break something like this manually? Any guesses? Needless to say I'll be shopping for a new bank ASAP.