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On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:41:21PM -0500, Dale wrote |
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> OK. I do banking online. I also pay my bills online along with social |
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> sites as well. I use Lastpass so that I can have some really REALLY |
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> funky passwords. I think I am one of few that has not had his facebook |
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> hacked. Anyway, I run Gentoo which is known here. I use |
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> Firefox/Seamonkey as my web browser. So next question sort of takes us |
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> back to my point with the knucklehead in the store. Am I safer, much |
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> safer, using Linux over windoze? That answer would take into account |
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> the fact that most virus/nasty code is written for windoze and not Linux |
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> but also that Linux is just built with security in mind. I belive that |
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> I am much safer with Linux myself. |
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You are safer overall. Just watch out for XSS (cross-site-scripting), |
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java, Flash, and acrobat exploits. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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