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Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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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That's my thinking but wanted a second opinion. So far, I have never |
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had anything hacked. That includes social sites, banking and other |
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financial stuff, email and other password protected stuff. I keep |
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everything updated and use browsers that are popular and updated |
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frequently. I think Lastpass helps too. I have one good password and |
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it remember the really hard ones. So far, it works well. |
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Thanks for the second opinion. It ended up like I thought. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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