Is it secure to use ubuntu for online banking

[Sanjay Sodhi]

Is it safe to drive a Ford to work?

On 25/06/07, Victor Mendonça <victorbrca at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> It would increase security this way. Let's say you use Opera for banking
> and firefox or epiphany for normal browsing. Any site that tries to access
> or get access of your firefox cookies will not have access to the Opera
> cookies, which will be the banking ones.... Hence more secure....
>
>
> Vic.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 6:41:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Is it secure to use ubuntu for online banking
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> Allegedly, on Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:08:49PM -0700, Victor Mendonça
> stated:
> > On 6/24/07, Stan Vincent wrote:
> > > From: Mazen Ghattas ; Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:35:48 PM
> > > > Hi: Just a quick question.  Is it safe to use Ubuntu for online
> > > > banking.  Thanks in advance for your response.  Stan
> > >
> > > Absolutly!
> > >
> > > Mr. V
>
> Agreed.  Both Ubuntu and other operating systems have web browsers that
> use 'https' (i.e. SSL) encryption.  If your bank's online banking web
> site uses 'https' in the URL (instead of just 'http'), then the
> information being transmitted online is encrypted, and thus as 'secure'
> as it gets.
>
> > One thing you could do too to increase security is use one browser
> > just for banking and another for all other sites.... Ubuntu has so
> > many browsers available that it should be easy to decide on which one
> > to use....
> >
> > Vic.
>
> It might be useful to state how this behaviour allegedly 'increases
> security'.
>
> Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
> Raymond
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Sanjay Sodhi
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