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From: The Natural Philosopher on 14 Jun 2010 18:37
Aragorn wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2010 00:47 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying
> as The Natural Philosopher wrote...
>
>> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:13:27 +0000, Curt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2010-06-13, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> use the 64 bit nonfree and to hell with potential security wotsits.
>>>> Pretty scary wotsits.
>>> How scary is it really? What can these exploits do on a Linux system?
>> I suspect in general access anything you as a user running the
>> browser, have privileges to access.
>>
>> I only took a cursory glance, but it looks like the standard 'in
>> principle, a hacker could create a flash file that executed arbitrary
>> code'
>
> Isn't NX supposed to prevent that sort of thing?
>
>> Now if you are not running as root, that probably wouldn't compromise
>> the operating system, but it might rip through your address books etc.
>
> Only if it knows what address books you are using.
#
Or is smart enough to work it out. By looking through your home
directory and seeing what config files exist.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 14 Jun 2010 18:38
Roger Blake wrote:
> On 2010-06-14, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>> Do like I do. Use a separate account (userid), for use with
>> each financial institutions, such as online banking.
>
> Or do like I do. Don't use online banking.
>
Or do like I do. Have an online bank with one time passwords and a free
machine to generate them.
From: Curt on 15 Jun 2010 03:14
On 2010-06-14, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Roger Blake wrote:
>> On 2010-06-14, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>> Do like I do. Use a separate account (userid), for use with
>>> each financial institutions, such as online banking.
>>
>> Or do like I do. Don't use online banking.
>>
> Or do like I do. Have an online bank with one time passwords and a free
> machine to generate them.

Or me and Uncle Cyrus. Keep it under the mattress.
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