'Extreme Security' Web Browsing 267
Sarah S writes "The application security researcher Jeremiah Grossman described to CSO magazine how he takes extreme measure to stay safe online. The simplest tip he uses: two separate browsers: 'One, which he calls the 'promiscuous' browser, is the one he uses for ordinary browsing. A second browser is used only for security-critical tasks such as online banking. When Grossman wants to do online banking, he closes his promiscous browser, opens the more prudish one, and does only what he has to do before closing it and going back to his insecure browser.'"
"Promiscuous" Browser (Score:2, Funny)
Hell, mine's a slut.
But then, so am I.
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
That's right. I snail mail the institutions for the answers I seek and they write me back after looking it up on the web.
Even this post was done via correspondence. I mailed this letter to CmdrTaco a couple of days back and let him know to post my thoughts on the matter when the article hit the front page.
The only way to do your banking safe (Score:4, Funny)
But I might be paranoid.
Extremed INsecurty web browsing (Score:2, Funny)
The fool is using the same computer to go to both important and random web sites! And he's probably using Windows, too!
If you care at all about security, you create a separate virtual machine for every web site you visit, and you only go to your banking site with an up-to-the-second-patched copy of lynx running on an obscure OS and platform, like OpenVMS running on DEC Alpha hardware, for example.
If you *really* care about security, you use telnet on an OS you wrote yourself. And you carefully scrutinize every line of the telnet code and TCP stack for security flaws.
'Extreme Safety' driving (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's nothing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:1, Funny)
You expect your main machine to be compromised, otherwise why not do the banking on that one?
You expect your secondary machine not to be compromised. Why is that? Has it got the dont-hack-me-bro bit set?
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... (Score:3, Funny)
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!
*grin*