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Someone please give this memo to Citibank which still uses Flash for their virtual credit card number feature! [1]

[1] https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

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Not to mention Trustwave, which requires a Flash plugin to load their PCI compliance interface. The irony is deafening.

That made me laugh out loud, but it's somewhat on part with that circus.

I ran in to some hassles just last week with some online proxy voting site for some shares I hold. I couldn't see the document they were asking me to vote on because this well known proxy vote site "securely" hosts the content using Flash. Of all the ridiculous things to use. I'd be willing to bet the document was a PDF underneath it. My only option was to request a paper copy of the document so that I could make the right decision which is an utterly absurd waste of ink and paper.

I tweeted at @AskCiti last weekend and their response was underwhelming.

I recommend everyone that uses Citi's virtual CC's to do the same. They need to get off their ass and fix this.

I dunno, maybe it's better if no one does. I expect they'd just remove the feature instead of rewriting it.

Funny part: they provide a binary for offline usage, but it is Windows only. MacOS doesn't exist for them!

Does the binary not use Flash internally?

It does. Source: I tried to run it under Wine and got directed to a download-flash page.

They'll lose me as a customer if they do. I suspect there are lots of other people in the same boat.

Yeah, I'm not sure they'll care. Bank of America did exactly this. :\ Maybe Citi will feel differently but I wouldn't keep my hopes up.

CapitalOne also offers virtual numbers but only from a browser extension called Eno

Good to know, but I fled CapOne a year ago because they stopped supporting OFA and broke Moneydance transaction downloading. And, I hate what their website has become since the acquisition of Ing. Ing was great, I wish they never sold to CapOne.

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