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It is safe for banking. Have you heard of encryption?
by leethax0r 14y ago
It is safe for banking. Have you heard of encryption?
- danielweber 14y agoThat is assuming your endpoint is secure. Most people's personal finance is probably safe to do on the Internet because of legal requirements on banks. Small businesses are another matter.
- sp332 14y agoOh, encryption. Why didn't anyone else think of that! Have you noticed the spate of attacks against SSL lately? BEAST, CRIME, Lucky 13, RC4 in general? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAST_%28computer_security%29#BEAST_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAST_%28computer_security%29#... Not profitable for some things, maybe, but definitely worth mounting such an attack for banking info. Have you noticed that the certificate authority system is totally broken? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysi... Heard of DigiNotar? Comodo? http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/09/comodo-hacker-i-hacked-diginotar-too-other-cas-breached/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/09/comodo-hacker-i-hack... These aren't hypothetical attacks! Google got MITM'd by Iran https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-google-com-certificate/ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-goog...