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Old 4th January 2010
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Originally Posted by shep View Post
I'm predominately a desktop user and the things that concern me the most are online banking and online purchases with credit cards.
Then you should not do it. Unless you control complete Internet infrastructure
conecting your computer with the servers of your bank you are completely
exposed. Even worse, if you run X your working assumtion should be that what you can see on your monitor anybody can see.

The above being said, I use sometimes credit cards on-line and I do log into my
bank accounts from time to time. It is all about the risk you can take it.
I am not familiar with Linux so I really do not know how much you would gain in the
terms of security by switching to OpenBSD.
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