Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using your >> >> admin user to surf the web. >> > >> > Just out of curiosity, what are these reasons? >> >> Your browser

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Franz Brandl
Lucky you, but not everyone, especially outside of Germany, has access to secure technology for banking. On 17. Mai 2014 19:03:41 MESZ, Sven Bartscher wrote: >On Sat, 17 May 2014 18:57:35 +0200 >Franz Brandl wrote: > >> May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or >write

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sat, 17 May 2014 18:57:35 +0200 Franz Brandl wrote: > May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or write > protected USB Stick for online banking. Assuming that no remote attacker can plug my HBCI-cardreader into the USB-HUB, I think that is not necessary. > On 17. Mai

Re: Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Franz Brandl
May be off topic, but IMO one should use an OS booted from DVD or write protected USB Stick for online banking. On 17. Mai 2014 18:50:42 MESZ, Sven Bartscher wrote: >On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 >Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using >yo

Dedicated admin account (was Re: Debians security features in comparison to Ubuntu)

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 18 May 2014 01:36:44 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > >> There are more reasons than the X11 hole to refrain from using your > >> admin user to surf the web. > > > > Just out of curiosity, what are these reasons? > > Your browser and any plugins, addons, etc. that it loads, including > java, fla