NSW Police: Use Ubuntu for Online Banking

[Michael Haney]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157767,nsw-police-dont-use-windows-for-internet-banking.aspx
>
> ---
> Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime
> Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect
> himself from cybercriminals when banking online.
>
> The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the
> banking site and the second was to avoid Microsoft Windows.
>
> "If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a
> Linux boot up disk - such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours.
> Puppylinux is a nice small distribution that boots up fairly quickly.
>
> "It gives you an operating system which is perfectly clean and
> operates only in the memory of the computer and is a perfectly safe
> way of doing internet banking," van der Graaf said.
> ---
>
> :)
>

Now this is a beautiful thing to behold indeed when a wayward soul
finally discovers the wondrous benefits of using Linux over Windows.

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