Is it secure to use ubuntu for online banking

[Jack Bowling]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:12:12AM -0700, Victor Mendonça wrote:

Anybody that does not clear all cookies after doing online banking is
not practising safe internet sex.

Jack


> 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
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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
> - -- 
> "Be Nice, or Leave - By Order of the Management"
> (Sign above door, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield)
> GPG Fingerprint: 2E4D 8605 DD48 E80F F893  1C02 B65D 86D9 3B3C 0E03
> Encrypted E-mail Preferred  |  http://www.yeeguy.com/freefall/
> Bush-whacked 2004! Try to relax and enjoy the Chaos :-)  --^
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> 
> iD8DBQFGf5untl2G2Ts8DgMRAgWqAKCoMg/x9FOtyPQWvwDvLpFZXGHwggCeK4oj
> EEN3p7bop0ENS7X8Z4hf6jY=
> =xXxr
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> 
> -- 
> ubuntu-ca mailing list
> ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail.  Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
> 
> -- 
> ubuntu-ca mailing list
> ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca
>