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Re: [tor-talk] Another security program



 On 4/1/2011 2:10 AM, Commence Without Illusions wrote:
This program sounds like 100% snake oil. Even if it did all the things
it says it does and somehow magically works with Tor, the user's
anonymity is already broken by logging into a bank associated with their
real name.

Commence

On 04/01/2011 12:54 AM, David wrote:
  A bank that holds one of my credit cards is now suggesting very
strongly that it's users install a program called Trusteer Rapport which
they say will protect against keystroke loggers, man-in-the-middle
attacks, phishing and counterfeit websites and many of the most
sophisticated trojan horse malware.  They say it runs alongside the
present firewall and anti-virusware in my present browser(i.e. "IE",
Firefox, Chrome in Windows or good browsers on Apple machines).  It
communicates behind the scenes with the banks servers when connected to
a website of a participating bank.  Their website is
<http://www.trusteer.com/landing/bankofamerica>

Has anyone investigated whether this software is compatible with Tor and
whether the ability to protect against many of the weak links in the
user's computer is worthwhile?  Since it only works with subscribing
banks, it does nothing for most browsing, for one thing.

David
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Excuse me, but if my bank does not know to their satisfaction that I truly am the holder of my account, then I cannot do business with them. I just do not want criminals or casual observers seeing my account activity.

David
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