> the people who built it eventually leave or retire. Exactly right. At Credit Suisse I asked questions of the back-office people regarding the proposed inter

> the people who built it eventually leave or retire. Exactly right. At Credit Suisse I asked questions of the back-office people regarding the proposed interface that were to use it and notionally understanding it, such as: - what are you going to do with it? - how are you going to access it? - why are you going to access it? - what's the security to it? And so on, to no avail. I had really long given up being a systems analyst, but I had to start again, to little avail. And I had the full (crap) SWIFT message documentation. God help us if we try to bring Putin down via this route.