It's kind of bizarre how many people are out to defend Barclays here. Normally HN is the first to criticize websites for bad Javascript, ugly fonts, scrolljacking, etc.
It's not the TSB IT fiasco but it's still an error on their part.
It's not the TSB IT fiasco but it's still an error on their part.
Additionally, the aggregate bandwidth cost of delivering that JS file during its lifetime is probably less than $0.05. How many copies of this file would need to be concatenated to equal the size of David After Dentist?
No one levels up on the Internet — and especially Twitter — by being calm and reasonable.
This is entirely a strawman you are burning down to make light of the fact that far from a stupid mistake, this is recklessness enabled by the joke of an "web development" industry. This stupidity is common practice and certainly no one in this thread seems even slightly inclined to clean it up.
It means they don't have their security in order, they're a bunch of amateurs and their banking license should be revoked.