[Linux-aus] Security practices (Was: Stand up for Linux..)

[Francois Marier]

On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 02:45 +0930, David Newall wrote:
> If you only do one thing to improve security this year, don't sign your 
> kernel: Run Firefox with NoScript instead.  As an aded bonus (pun 
> apparently intended) it seems to knock out all of the advertisements, 
> too.  (How unsurprising that malware and advertisements spread via the 
> same vector.)

And if you like NoScript [0], you should check out Request Policy [1].
It uses the same whitelist approach for _all_ external content loaded
from a given website.

Cheers,
Francois

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/
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