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by sanguy 1552 days ago
Banks, credit card issuers, and many brokerages suck from a tech stack perspective.

During the y2k times I did a lot of contract work porting old COBOL code to be y2k compliant. The number of seriously spooky security things was mind boggling.

Having mocked API's like you found is not a surprise. The fact they even bothered to use API's was a step in the positive direction versus telnet and ssh tunnels to pipe data around with hard-coded ip's and accounts.