MasterCard SecureCode web dialog
Published by marco on
I just can’t believe that this gruesome thing is still a thing.[1] In an age where we are supposed to have been sensitized to phishing sites, this thing is still an integral part of the online credit-card purchasing chain. It is generally called up with a completely different URL than the store where you started and it looks terrible and untrustworthy.
It’s probably a combination of:
- not being able to change a running system because people are used to it now
- not being able to change a running system because they barely got it into production in the first place and the code is such a tangled mess that no-one will ever be able to make a change without breaking it irrevocably
- not being able to change a single thing on the page because countless other applications that are just as terrible treat this page as an “API” so you can’t change even a single character of the HTML.
[1] The green boxes obscure personal data and are not part of the design. You are forgiven for thinking that they might have been, though.↩