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Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking?

Posted by timothy on from the make-that-virus-throw-an-error dept.

CWmike writes with a pointer to this ComputerWorld mention of an interesting application of Live CDs, courtesy of Florida-based regional bank CNL: "Recognizing that most consumers don't want to buy a separate computer for online banking, CNL is seriously considering making available free Ubuntu bootable 'live CD' discs in its branches and by mail. The discs would boot up Linux, run Firefox and be configured to go directly to CNL's Web site. 'Everything you need to do will be sandboxed within that CD,' [CNL CIO Jay McLaughlin] says. That should protect customers from increasingly common drive-by downloads and other vectors for malicious code that may infect and lurk on PCs, waiting to steal the user account names, passwords and challenge questions normally required to access online banking." (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)

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  1. Reply by Pharmboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)

    What do you mean, like a disk that would boot Microsoft Windows instead?

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    1. Re:Reply by flyneye · · Score: 5, Funny

      (But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)

      Well don't leave 'em layin' around on the floor and no one will slip on them.

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    2. Re:Reply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You replied to that post without a smutty joke.
      Congratulations!

    3. Re:Reply by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

      What do you mean, like a disk that would boot Microsoft Windows instead?

      I think they meant AOL disks.

    4. Re:Reply by Skim123 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You mean Joe Average doesn't have an SSD boot drive yet? What is this, 2006!?

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  2. Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency by trapnest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Honestly, I just read that entire thing. :\