Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Ben Koenig
On 3/11/21 3:54 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 18:37 Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: The most vulnerable point in any system is the user. If you were told to use mozilla-firefox instead of firefox then the only flaw here is in the bureaucracy. Ben

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 18:37 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > The most vulnerable point in any system is the user. If you were told to > > use mozilla-firefox instead of firefox then the only flaw here is in the > > bureaucracy. > > Ben, > > Their IT department le

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: The most vulnerable point in any system is the user. If you were told to use mozilla-firefox instead of firefox then the only flaw here is in the bureaucracy. Ben, Their IT department leaves much to be desired. Most likely explanation is that they are

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, carl day wrote: You could do a user-agent switch, then firefox could tell their server, i'm windows-ie or ms-windows chrome. i have done that for some banks. Carl, I'll just use chromium until they regain some sanity. The worst part was suggesing I use mozilla-firefox ins

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 17:29 carl day wrote: > You could do a user-agent switch, then firefox could tell their > server, i'm windows-ie or > ms-windows chrome. i have done that for some banks. > . FWIW I use Firefox + addblock on Linux (Ubuntu, openSuSE, Debian and centOS) exclusively for banki

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread carl day
You could do a user-agent switch, then firefox could tell their server, i'm windows-ie or ms-windows chrome. i have done that for some banks. ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plu

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Ben Koenig
The most vulnerable point in any system is the user. If you were told to use mozilla-firefox instead of firefox then the only flaw here is in the bureaucracy. Firefox is the shorthand name for Mozilla's flagship project. In Slackware it is packaged as "mozilla-firefox" but nobody refers it th

Re: [PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
While it is not easy: Change bank, vote with your $$$. It is not a good idea to demand their or anybody else's service, when they do not want to serve you. Banks are not government, clearly you are not important to them. Just my 2c, -T On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 14:13 Rich Shepard wrote: > Just tri

[PLUG] Firefox security issue?

2021-03-11 Thread Rich Shepard
Just tried to log on to my bank and they said because of security issues they no longer allow use of firefox. They offered three alternatives: M$ edge, Chrome, or ... mozilla-firefox. A) As far as I recall it's always been mozilla-firefox (but they wouldn't let me long in using it) and 2) What's