HSBC logon - virtual keyboard. Out of luck?

[jorossian]

Does anyone here do their personal online banking via HSBC?

If so you probably have the same problem I do. They have a 2 password logon system that requires a typed password AND a password entered via a virtual keyboard that you need to enter with your mouse-pointer. I think it's a flash based keyboard. I've tried Opera and IE Mobile with flash-lite as well as the hacked "full" macromedia/adobe flash installed with SPhelper as the mouse emulator. So far no luck.

Is there a way around the problem?

[cswroe]

Does anyone here do their personal online banking via HSBC?

If so you probably have the same problem I do. They have a 2 password logon system that requires a typed password AND a password entered via a virtual keyboard that you need to enter with your mouse-pointer. I think it's a flash based keyboard. I've tried Opera and IE Mobile with flash-lite as well as the hacked "full" macromedia/adobe flash installed with SPhelper as the mouse emulator. So far no luck.

Is there a way around the problem?

Skyfire (http://get.skyfire.com/)may be a possibility. I am reserved about doing anything with skyfire because of the security implications.

[jorossian]

I just checked that out and it does look like it would work, however after reading the user agreement I don't think it would be wise to use Skyfire for anything remotely sensitive. I don't think I even want to log into my yahoo email with it considering they're monitoring and archiving everything you do through their server. It's a shame cuz it's really a great UI and it's very fast. Of course that's because it's not really "the web" - it's sort of like a live stream of the web from their server. It sort of feels like using remote desktop and controlling another computer's mouse pointer.

Great way to browse full page websites quickly though. (But banking appear's to be out of the question unless you're account has around 20 bucks or less in it :D)