[RTTY] RE: A little LOTW Gotcha

[Ian White G3SEK]

Bill Turner wrote:
>Point taken, so let me rephrase: QSL's are apparently more of a 
>security risk than mere cash.
>
>How's that?

It's because the banks actually use two very different kinds of 
programmers for the same project.

First come the ultra-cautious programmers who build the security 
systems. Almost by definition, these are not imaginative "people 
persons", and they are not good at writing user interfaces.  So next the 
banks bring in a bunch of different programmers, who do have an instinct 
for the needs of users, and they write the interface that the users will 
see.

It's a problem as old as computing itself. Both sets of programming 
skills are needed; but it's impossible for any one person to possess 
them both in full measure... and that second problem is as old as 
humanity.

So far, LoTW has only had the first guy. It's as simple as that.


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73 from Ian G3SEK