diff --git a/tools/gen_brokerage_table.sh b/tools/gen_brokerage_table.sh index c555058..0d6537f 100755 --- a/tools/gen_brokerage_table.sh +++ b/tools/gen_brokerage_table.sh @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ insert into brkrTbl (name,url,notes) values insert into brkrTbl (name,url,blacklisted,notes) values ("TD Ameritrade","https://www.tdameritrade.com",1, - "Majority owned by Charles Schwab, a firm that [supports](us_banks.md) republicans, CISPA, drug tests their staff, and treats Tor users with hostility (but note that TDA functions over Tor). Schwab outsources banking operations to PNC bank, which is [quite evil](us_banks.md)."); + "Majority owned by Charles Schwab, a firm that [supports](us_banks.md) republicans, CISPA, drug tests their staff, and treats Tor users with hostility (but note that TDA functions over Tor). Schwab outsources banking operations to PNC bank, which is [quite evil](us_banks.md); [Uses MS Github to host s/w](https://github.com/TDAmeritrade/stumpy)"); insert into brkrTbl (name,url,blacklisted,aws,notes) values ("Fundrise","https://fundrise.com",1,1,"Unavoidable CAPTCHAs"); insert into brkrTbl (name,url,blacklisted,aws,cispa,alec,dt) values ("Prudential","https://www.prudential.com",1,1,1,1,1); diff --git a/us_banks.md b/us_banks.md index 1777de4..4f03e5e 100644 --- a/us_banks.md +++ b/us_banks.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--|--| | Bank of America | 🐘 | ~~👌~~ (dropped) | 🚨 | 🔎 |🚓 ([will stop](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/c5vlsg/bank_of_america_to_stop_financing_operators_of/)) | 👁 (& [VPN-hostile](https://www.reddit.com/r/BankOfAmerica/comments/c2susn/vpn_issues/)) | [fracking](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [fossil fuel](https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2019/#data-panel), [extreme fossil fuel](https://www.openinvest.co/blog/banks-funding-fossil-fuels/), [Atlantic Coast Pipeline](http://priceofoil.org/2018/04/18/bank-of-america-leads-finance-for-atlantic-coast-pipeline/), [Dakota Access Pipeline](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bank-of-america-re100_n_57e157bce4b0071a6e09a217), [ultra-deepwater oil & gas projects](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion](https://www.ran.org/the-understory/5_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_trans_mountain_pipeline/) | [politically motivated denial](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8211768/WikiLeaks-Bank-of-America-halts-all-transactions-to-whistleblower-site.html) of fund transfers; often named "most hated bank" in consumer feedback studies; [xenophobic policy](https://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-bank-of-america-asking-clients-about-their-citizenship/) and [hostile](https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/401032-banks-are-standing-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-with-trump) toward immigrants; [shamed](https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules#bank-of-america) for dumb password rules | | Capital One | 🐘 || 🚨 ||| 👁 || sponsors Fox News; spent $20 million on Facebook ads (thus feeding a privacy abuser); uses privacy-abusing Amazon AWS which lead to [exfiltration of 100M customer records](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html); [shamed](https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules#capital-one) for dumb password rules | -| Charles Schwab | 🐘 || 🚨 | 🔎 || 👁 ||| +| Charles Schwab | 🐘 || 🚨 | 🔎 || 👁 || outsources banking operations to PNC Bank | | Citibank | 🐘 || 🚨 | 🔎 ||| [fossil fuel](https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2019/#data-panel), [extreme fossil fuel](https://www.openinvest.co/blog/banks-funding-fossil-fuels/), [ultra-deepwater oil & gas projects](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion](https://www.ran.org/the-understory/5_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_trans_mountain_pipeline/) | [member of Better Than Cash Alliance](https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance_uc/comments/cyeg13/war_on_cash_visa_offered_10k_to_merchants_who/) thus fights to remove the cash payment option; Citi [blocked insulin](https://orinocotribune.com/citibank-blocks-funds-for-insulin-more-than-450000-venezuelans-affected) to 450,000 Venezuelans; Citi [blocks account holder access to money](https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/cwknyl/issue_with_citibank_bank_account_10k_put_on_hold/) if Citibank doesn't like your address; [shamed](https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules#citi) for dumb password rules| | Fifth Third | [🐘](https://www.53.com/content/dam/fifth-third/docs/reports/political-contributions-report-2H-2018.pdf) || 🚨 | 🔎 |🚓||| employs 17,744 workers in pro-forced-birth state (OH)| | JP Morgan - Chase | 🐘 || 🚨 | 🔎 | 🚓 ([will stop](https://populardemocracy.org/sites/default/files/%28Updated%29%202019%20Data%20Brief%20The%20Wall%20Street%20Banks%20Still%20Financing%20Private%20Prisons%20FINAL%20EMBARGOED%20UNTIL%204-8-19%201030am.pdf#page=2)) | 👁+ | [Arctic oil and gas exploration](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [fracking](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [fossil fuel](https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2019/#data-panel), [extreme fossil fuel](https://www.openinvest.co/blog/banks-funding-fossil-fuels/), [Atlantic Coast Pipeline](http://priceofoil.org/2018/04/18/bank-of-america-leads-finance-for-atlantic-coast-pipeline/), [Dakota Access Pipeline](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bank-of-america-re100_n_57e157bce4b0071a6e09a217), [ultra-deepwater oil & gas projects](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/top-investment-banks-lending-billions-extract-fossil-fuels), [Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion](https://www.ran.org/the-understory/5_things_you_need_to_know_about_the_trans_mountain_pipeline/) | [supports Trump](http://www.backersofhate.org/en/jpmorgan.html); [financed nazis](https://web.archive.org/web/20200319123802/https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-nazi-germany-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england/5530318); paid $3k per engineer per day to Palantir (thus contributing to family separation at the US-Mexico border) | diff --git a/us_brokerages.md b/us_brokerages.md index 5788259..bb3ce97 100644 --- a/us_brokerages.md +++ b/us_brokerages.md @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ These brokerages have severe ethical or trust issues and should be boycotted. #### Tor hostility (Ally, Firsttrade, and TIAA-CREF) -Some banks and brokerages that are aggressively Tor hostile are +Banks and brokerages that are aggressively Tor-hostile are automatically blacklisted.
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ nannying.
-Why non-Tor users should boycott Tor adversaries +Why non-Tor users should also boycott Tor adversaries Suppose you never leave home, and you're not bothered if your ISP collects data on where you bank to then sell to data brokers who can then sell it to debt collectors. If you're ethical nonetheless, then @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ reduces your freedom of movement. Banks and brokerages that proxy their services through CloudFlare are blacklisted automatically for taking a profoundly stupid risk with -consumers sensitive financial data. CloudFlare holds the SSL keys for -every connection and sees all the traffic including username and +consumer's sensitive financial data. CloudFlare holds the SSL keys +for every connection and sees all the traffic including username and unhashed password. CloudFlare has proven to be untrustworthy with sensitive information (demonstrated by CloudFlare's doxxing of the identities of child porn whistle blowers). Apart from the @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ unacceptably high security risk of having a CloudFlare MitM, there are countless [ethical problems](rap_sheets/cloudflare.md) with being an enabler of CloudFlare. -#### forced CAPTCHA (Betterment, Fundrise, and Wealthfront) +#### Forced CAPTCHA (Betterment, Fundrise, and Wealthfront) Banks and brokerages that force customers to solve an hCAPTCHA or a Google reCAPTCHA are blacklisted automatically. Use of these two