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Re: NZ: Banks Demand a Look Inside Customer PCs in Fraud Case s
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:34:39 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com> wrote:
When will the customer have to have at least some responsibility for their action/inactions?
Well, this is kind of complicated, and I personally believe it is the wrong question. All to often, consumers are completely unwitting victims, through no fault of their own. I'd like to understand how any additional "responsibility" by a user, who is not doing anything "risky", solves anything. Basic security shouldn't require a consumer to be a rocket scientist.
I guess the person who invents the perfectly secure internet transaction will be the richest person on the planet. Imagine being able to conduct a secure pc based internet transaction with every kind of trojan and keylogger installed....
This is one of my major complaints with people thinking that "Internet security" means encrypting or securing the end-to-end transaction -- once the consumer PC is compromised, all bets are off. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGgwIZq1pz9mNUZTMRAsDTAJ4x11gnSoTrcIiLCGfHP8ljbCUObACg3uzQ 8jUhEem9udnJ3uB6PpQOnFg= =IKR2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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