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kitten · Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 8

Look how clearly solutions to the online banking problem were laid out five years ago...

http://www.1729.com/secureinternetbanking/index.html

Wouldn't a bank be smart to offer its customers secure on-line banking that included -- (for a profit line set-up fee)

1: a business card size CD, that was the only way they could access their account via internet. Its single ap would be a locked-down browser that could only access their secure servers, using the account name and key for user to which it was issued.

2: a 2nd factor, wallet PIN card where PIN was only good for single transaction login. For deny ability, a customer could destroy its function by some special duress/panic PIN, like "911".

Since this problem is so technical to set up right, and fraught with slip up peril...

http://www.1729.com/blog/TenWaysLiveCDSecurityCouldFail.html

This is a problem for some BANK's big-bucks marketing and IT teams?

Consumers only get what they demand. Customers refusal to bank on-line costs banks money. I'd sure be attracted to a bank that offered the plan above.

And surely there is a way in this money area to raise contributions for Puppy's advancement.

kitten · Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 8

Here is where others with a Black Ops bent are taking their distros...

http://www.openwall.com/Owl/Owl-CD-large.shtml

or another example, this time lightweight: Note the FluxBox menus and tiny widget. Note "System Hardening" as a menu option.

http://techm4sters.org/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=46

But yea, its a daunting task...

http://mirrors.unixsol.org/netsecl/docu/netsecldocu.html

Yet since as even the Pres says, October "is national cyber security month in the US, with hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies, companies, non-profits and everyday citizens deploying themselves to educate millions of Americans about the importance of online security to themselves, their communities and the nation" - Peter Dinham in...

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28614/53/

Every other day we read that Window$, unlike Linux, did not design-in security from the kernel. So now the country and the world must pay for its greed and rush to market.

Any inherent advantage the pristine Puppy CD has in privacy or security may be run over, unless we train each generation of Puppies to fight or evade new intruders and protect their RAM and their disk.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 10:37 Post_subject:

We have a program under Network 'MTR traceroute'

this sounds like "geeky, geeky geek geek" to me - what does it mean if anything for security?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute

Developing GROWL for simple enhancements
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=353455#353455

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 606 Location: The old Lone Wolf

A needed read for Linux security audits:

http://www.sans.org/score/checklists/linuxchecklist.pdf

mac84 · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 43

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Twisted Evil

SickPuppy · Joined: 17 Jan 2010 Posts: 46

Black Ops Puppy could easily become a hit in China.

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 887

clarf · Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 606 Location: The old Lone Wolf

"The lesson from this year's Pwn2Own is pretty simple, suggested Charlie Miller, another of Wednesday's winners. "What you can see at Pwn2Own is that bugs are still in software, and exploit mitigations like DEP and ASLR don't work. Even as [defensive measures] improve, researchers still end up winning"

More info at:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174101/Hacker_busts_IE8_on_Windows_7_in_2_minutes

edoc · Posted: Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:11 Post_subject:

Just as this fascinating thread was moving toward solutions it seems to have died ... sure was lots of fun to read!

Was a new thread started somewhere?

Please tell me that my favorite show has not been canceled! Wink

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Lobster · Posted: Thu 16 Sep 2010, 08:59 Post_subject:

This thread was created in response to those
terrified that their root running computers were
malware magnets and hacker (cracker) havens

Keep your mind clear
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=398158#398158

and you won't have to use GROWL (I never do)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=335216#335216

Over to the Tin foil hat brigade . . . Wink

edoc · Posted: Thu 16 Sep 2010, 09:57 Post_subject:

My primary interest is:

1. A small app optimized to seek out available public Wifi sites.

2. An app to defend my little Netbook Puppy when using public Wifi's.

3. An app for when a friend or neighbor needs help troubleshooting Wifi, especially for router security problems.

Is Growl a suotable answer?

Or ???

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 887

edoc · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 13:15 Post_subject:

Downloading now ... Laughing

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Q5sys

That's one way to fool the crackers....slip a puppy in unannounced with no fanfare..... Wink

Interesting, but I think we still need better Lan/Wifi setup wizard to take full advantage of its capabilities

Couldn't go wardriving easily eh? [not with my eyes, I can't see the white on black... Embarassed

]

Aitch Smile