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Re: [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Dec 6 12:01:50 2005
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:09:33 +0100.")
<Pine.LNX.4.60.0512051902360.31631@xeon44.aei.mpg.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:31:35 -0500
In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0512051902360.31631@xeon44.aei.mpg.de>, Jonathan Thor
nburg writes:
>I would never use online banking, and I advise all my friends and
>colleagues (particularly those who _aren't_ computer-security-geeks)
>to avoid it.
>
I do use it -- but never from a Windows machine. The OS I use is
probably better, but it's *definitely* a much less attractive target
for malware writers.
Problems? I did have my credit card number stolen, but almost
certainly not that way. The bank believes it was a random card number
generator.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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