Friday, December 21, 2007

Security Researcher Promotes Concept of 'Safe' and 'Promiscuous' Web Browsers

In this brief article (http://www2.csoonline.com/exclusives/column.html?CID=33396) we find an excellent tip for safe surfing that applies to wired and wireless networks:

It involves having two browsers: One, which he calls the “promiscuous” browser, is the one he uses for ordinary browsing. A second browser is used only for security-critical tasks such as online banking.

Also, you can read the commentary on Slashdot here: http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/21/1317217.shtml

2 comments:

Keith Salustro said...
This post has been removed by the author.
Keith Salustro said...

Interesting. I posted some recommendations for safe browsing here.