On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:00 +0100, jimbob palmer wrote: > My interest is this: is firefox secure enough to store a password for > an internet banking site? That sounds like a question for the Firefox crowd, more than the Fedora one. For what it's worth, I wouldn't. Security is never guaranteed, and you'd have to be quite gutsy to offer one. An answer to that question *could* *reasonably* be that "we're not currently aware of any problems." Which doesn't actually mean there aren't any, but that they don't know of any. There's a big difference. Then there's the issues of security outside the browser: Some other network hack into your system. Losing your laptop while you're out and about, or having a computer stolen while you're out, and the damage that can be done before you notice and have a chance to contact your bank. I'll wager that few people have prepared a plan about what to do if they lose their computer, so they remember to take care of all the things that they need to (contact their bank, contact other services they might use that'll need locking out, as well as the obvious report the crime, etc.). And probably fewer, still, left a plan that someone else can make use of if something happens to them. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
