You got me searching and I have found their 5.7 years long song: Like a Wall in Which an Insect Lives and Gnaws. Years! I am not sure it’s real but it was entertaining to think about long songs.
I feel like I have seen a movie like Inception—-well coordinated plan of attack is executed. Those attacks and defenses are occurring in our bodies. Why have we evolved to be unconscious of this battle? If we were conscious of our bodies being attacked, we could deliver more intelligent strategies.
> It is standardised and the standards are freely available
Same.
> you still need to have an official "blessing" to actually access a production API endpoint (even for your own account)
Same.
> you need a legal entity that has some highly specific and entirely meaningless certificates that are hard (and potentially expensive) to get
Same though not entirely meaningless.
> you'll still need to negotiate access with each bank individually.
Not same.