Pensioner Bonds now on sale

Alter_ego

Sledgehead wrote: »

Check these out :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html
https://srlabs.de/badusb/

My point? Just look at the ingenuity, effort and stamina hackers have. If you think for one minute it's wise to get a transaction number from an untrusted third party, frankly you deserve to lose very cent you own.

Here's a little truth you can take with you where ever you go and whatever you do :

Convenience is inversely proportional to Security.

Thanks for the warning, however I have checked my NSANDI account and find that all my premium bonds, index linked bonds, and my new 65+ bonds are there. Hopefully it's the real NSANDI site.

baxy

I have a pending £10,000.00 in my bank from early on 16th. Not had email or any idea from previous calls to NS&I as to whether I had a bond or not.
Rang NS&I again today. The person there said they had had an email saying all pending payments would be processed and we would received a letter.
I asked if we would receive an email and she said no as email addresses were lost when the system crashed.
So we can just wait and hope.

2010

whattochoose wrote: »

I'm not 65 until December, so I wonder if these bonds, or something similar will be on sale this time next year?

This is a one off May7th election bribe and the Tories hope that you`ll forget the crap rates they`ve caused since the introduction of the FLS.

fenix26

I applied for the max. 3yr bond on Saturday & the transaction was easy enough. I also received an email confirmation & Ref. No. & await a verification doc. to sign. However, no monies have left my account as yet...so unsure if I've bought a bond or not.....

FifeheadMagdalen

Ref my post #147 above where I was worried that the site had crashed and I had received no application number nor confirmatory email.
Three calendar days later, my 3-year bond has now appeared in my NSandI listing so I didn't need to worry!

Oblivion

NS&I website worked fine for me tonight. Application for a £10,000 3 year bond went through fast and without any problems. Payment showed as pending from my bank account immediately and I was given a transaction number. I do already have an NS&I account logon so that may have helped.

[Deleted User]

Phone lines should be better soon too, 200 staff from other Government Departments are been trained to take the calls

mgdavid

FifeheadMagdalen wrote: »

Ref my post #147 above where I was worried that the site had crashed and I had received no application number nor confirmatory email.
Three calendar days later, my 3-year bond has now appeared in my NSandI listing so I didn't need to worry!

much as I suggested in post #175; glad it worked OK for you too.

Sledgehead

Rollinghome wrote: »

Not necessarily, but I do run a high-spec dedicated server for a fairly well-known website I own. That server easily copes 99.99% of the time, and while there can be rare problems when it staggers, it would make no sense to buy in more capacity at considerable cost just for those rare occasions. (And yes, I did assume you were making a somewhat lame attempt at sarcasm but thanks for pointing it out in case I missed it.)

You assume the way to have avoided the fiasco that has occured was to use more server cycles; maybe some clever network virtualization load balancing. You might ask yourself how they ever managed to sell off British Gas in 1986, given Berners Lee made his first test of WWW in late 1990.

Rollinghome wrote: »

I've no idea how long the bonds might be on offer but if they were pulled in less than 4 weeks and oldies missed out after the repeated assurances from both NS&I and Osborne that they'd be available for "months rather than weeks" then HM Opposition would be queueing up to beat the bejesus out of him on your behalf - just in time for the election.

You may well have a point (tho I am applying on my parents behalf fyi). However, I haven't noticed anyone of any political affiliation worry too much about savers, so I'm sure any attempt to do the above would be immediately rebuffed with an accusation of cynical electioneering ...

Sledgehead

Alter_ego wrote: »

Thanks for the warning, however I have checked my NSANDI account and find that all my premium bonds, index linked bonds, and my new 65+ bonds are there. Hopefully it's the real NSANDI site.

Don't feel bad about what I am going to say, because I'm pretty sure you are in the majority in your understanding of such threats.

Yes, your transaction may have gone through, just as your xmas purchase of toe-socks or whatever went through on toe-sox.com. That's not the point. Few hackers are both exploit experts and thieves. They make their (relatively modest) income selling information to others. If you think about it, that's what makes sense. People who are studious enough to dig out exploits are rarely big risk takers. Far better to collect details, package them up, and sell them on the dark web for bitcoin to some organised crim types outside European Arrest Warrant territory / off UK Extradition Treaty lists.

And don't assume that because your bank acc isn't showing unauthorised debits you aren't being robbed. Much better to steal your identity and run up debts elsewhere in your name ...

Problem is, to be truly safe involves true inconvenience, and most people just aren't up for that. So they buy Kaspersky Internet Security as recommended by Barclays, a bank whose login server is rated F grade by Qualys SSL Labs, and console themselves with the fact its' tricky to steal money from that account because of two factor authentication. Let's just forget the fact that Evgeny Kaspersky is Putin's ex-KGB man, operating out of a building a couple of doors down from the Kremlin ...