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  • A couple of reasons:

    1. Who would contribute? Banks are highly regulated and sometimes deal with complex products that most Devs don't have a background on. Even most Devs in banks rely on a team of business analysts, designers etc to shape the requirements. Add on top of that the general negative perception of banks, I can't think of a large open-source community forming.
    2. Competition. Bank's primarily compete with each other. They all offer very similar products, and any advantage they can gain by developing proprietary software will be explored.
    3. Third-party apps. Banks use a TON of third-party apps behind the scenes. A lot of times they will purchase licenses for existing products and then customise on top of that.
    4. Outsourcing. Even when they are building the app "in-house" they may have outsourced the development to another company, and will then just maintain the finished product.
    5. Banks move slooooowly. As it's a highly regulated industry, every deployment needs to go through a ton of red-tape. An exploit found in public might take weeks to be resolved internally.
    6. Reward is not worth risk. It simply isn't a priority and they can't see any benefit for doing it. It's more likely to cause a reputation risk than not.
  • I've done the same with a lot of "easy to lose" things; I'll go for white or other bright colors so it's easier to spot and harder to misplace or forget. I lost my water bottle the other day because it was nighttime and the bottle is black.

  • Hello AA5B, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in on Saturday. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmkay...

    Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

  • The same will happen any time a "get rich quick" scheme comes around. People saw things going up 100% in price from one day to the next, compared to a 2% per year savings account. That's very enticing for anyone.

    This one was at an impressive scale though. Probably because it was so accessible. I'd have my BIL in South America telling me he's playing a game that mines some random coin. Can't really say much other than to be sceptical and never risk more than you can afford to lose.