Posted on 03/24/2005 7:15:21 AM PST by N3WBI3
Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security.
The company yesterday released information about its Online Banking Coastguard solution. Coastguard is based upon Knoppix, a Linux distribution which boots entirely from CD and is known for its automatic hardware detection features. Cybersource has included Mozilla Firefox as the sole browser for Internet banking.
"We've brought it to the attention of several banks, and are in reasonably serious discussions with two of them," said Rohan Tronson, Cybersource's Coastguard product manager. Although he wouldn't say which companies were involved, Tronson acknowledged his company was talking to both national and regional players.
"One of them has considered the technology, but has already made a commitment to another technology, which is tokens. While it's [Coastguard] not incompatible with tokens, they've already made certain agreements with a certain company involved with those tokens. They've chosen at this stage not to make it something that they'll carry as a major product," Tronson said.
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You can get some WinModems to work under Linux, some you can't.
This would solve all virus issues. Every time you boot up, you boot with a clean install.
Youre right about the winmodem issue, I have not used a modem in so long I dont know how Linux has progressed in its support for those evil devices. but the advantages for people with actuall modems and bb connections are great...
And printer drivers, which you would have to configure everytime.
Not to mention how many people do not know how to configure their BIOS to boot from CDROM.
This would be a nightmare. But I agree more people should use Linux.
The only warning I have seen is when I go to https://mybank.com/login and the sertificate is issues to www.mybank.com
I don't disagree. I love Knoppix, and bought a couple of serial modems on eBay so I could use it and get online. Mom and Pop won't know how to do that, though.
Not a bad idea at all.
Most moden PeeCee's already boot from CDROM (hence they send you an emergency repair CD) without any user configuration. Printing might be an issue for some, I myself dont really print after making a transaction (maybe I should) but the nice thing about knoppix is that you can save page offline to your harddrive, reboot it into windows and print from there..
You can create a persistent directory on your hard drive to save your configuration. It is a Knoppix menu item.
That being said, this particular Knoppix application is a disk the bank gives you for secure banking use. You wouldn't need a printer just to go online for a few minutes to pay some bills and check your balance.
whoops I forgot that most people will now be using ntfs, guess the problem stands..
whoops No it doesn't because Version 3.8 of Knoppix can mount and write to an NTFS drive for persistent storage.
Wow, I did not know they changed that kernel default so thats ok to do. I had thought it was still considered alpha..
Thanksfor the update..
Sorry to bother you. I didn't realize that your only interest here is to be smarmy.
My sons who are far more internet savy than me claim that more than once, within 15 seconds of loging on the internet the machine was hit with spam or worse. One was a new computer booting-up for the first time. What's to stop the same thing happing here? Linux? The only reason Linux isn't hit is because in the words of Jesse James, "there's no money there". Once that changes Linux will be hit just like MS.
Sounds like it could give Microslop some . . . anxieties?
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