- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:57:25 -0400
- To: michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com
- Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
(Cutting the CC list down) On 2007-07-30 11:16:15 -0500, michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com wrote: > There are emerging vendors who offer a hardened web browser that > only allows the user to access certain pre-vetted web sites. The > one I saw demo'd today is based on the Mozilla code base. The UI > looks like a stripped-down Firefox. While it's running all other > Windows programs (inc. any key loggers or other malware) are more > or less suspended. Only SSL communication is allowed. The > browser also uses a private DNS server to avoid DNS poisoning and > a signed URL list to avoid bookmark poisoning. I wonder how scalable this actually is, and how much it'll be used. I've seen similar approaches demonstrated where the banking platform was launched from a read-only Linux distribution (on CD), to defend against any possible malware infestation. Regards, -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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