From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNGRE-0007ub-KH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:45:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49DD8E0179; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4B6E0179 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so787923ugf.49 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:45:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=z5xSCdoLDBoWky1KAcM2lE5YxzLuQsWLYtYpaZyHl80=; b=r9E7+1pT/9XelHbri4MHg+5unT8Bt2q4FpLLF3SRcYUk0fZbY95HlYOoUdTtD3jKZWc6pL/UqixxKnIv0Nxrv4D1p34FluNJL3cUBFHmySRIzhkb9kMkyZqJuF/dsViHmmYZQzoGuvGrYgq3cQnUXxYjGq1NaIdujD6xdEyYPOQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ct+vhicXjJqRszD0GkYanfJzSSNypjhXCuwdwqJrSnLqMnsrCzg336q5FN+v0lQSso425/kvUyNI1vx2/yO2Q4nhW0MULOCZeFlaRD2Fziv1FNaMGcpVFhncjwI8Ln9lQLIsjgNoUGQLyRYsSvKko/0w7jFTlDq2O1/iCYXyzJs= Received: by 10.67.119.15 with SMTP id w15mr4661998ugm.73.1202427948484; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q40sm11087672ugc.70.2008.02.07.15.45.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:45:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question... Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:43:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47AB0FEB.4030403@shic.co.uk> <200802071832.51559.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <47AB756B.70905@alstadheim.priv.no> In-Reply-To: <47AB756B.70905@alstadheim.priv.no> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2426559.fyDNSh2vi4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802072344.20625.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 546219a6-a965-4050-a0dd-1269f46b96d1 X-Archives-Hash: e4d080ac1eb7bf45f8b7363b4f25c05c --nextPart2426559.fyDNSh2vi4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 07 February 2008, H=E5kon Alstadheim wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Basic web browsers do not have the javascript, Java (and soon enough > > flash?) functionality that the majority of banking sites require.=20 > > Wouldn't Knoppix with its Firefox and equivalents do the job for you, > > after you set root and knoppix passwds? BTW, Konqueror will also work > > with many banking sites, but you may need to change the browser agent > > identification, treatment of cookies and so on. YMMV. > > I've had some success (one of two sites) with the opera browser. Free as > in beer. The original post was about security rather than browser compatibility, but= =20 for what it's worth Opera can leave fewer traces behind than other browsers= =20 do. I also use Opera to check online banking sites and have similarly had= =20 success with more than a couple of them. However, I had to mask the user=20 agent as MSIE, or lately Firefox for it to work properly. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2426559.fyDNSh2vi4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHq5fU5Fp0QerLYPcRAiqOAKCxb306bL780Y7Q76/GftX+siewMgCglhEg UAPmFwDmslEmyVjtBTkRyHI= =Y8++ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2426559.fyDNSh2vi4-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list