What you say is reasonable, especially since I’m frequently running
VMs anyway. For now, a simple rule for me is that nobody can send me a
Dropbox file without first sending an email personally or calling me on
the phone. Simple and it works.
--Barry
On 22 Mar 2017, at 14:25, glen ☣ wrote:
It seems like someone could make it sufficiently easy to isolate the
highest risk interfaces in a VM or container. E.g. rather than
double-clicking on a native email app (or web browser) to read your
email, you'd double-click on a native host program that launches a
container for the email app (or web browser). Then you contain the
infection (or ransomable content) within the container. Of course,
that assumes two things: 1) a staged backup of the container image and
2) an easy path to purposefully move valid data out of the container
and into the rest of your work environment.
Sure, data that looks valid could still creep out. But it would help
with those "uh-oh, I clicked on the wrong thing" episodes. Here are
several containers one could use:
http://linoxide.com/how-tos/20-docker-containers-desktop-user/
It seems so obvious, either I'm missing something significant or such
a convenience already exists somewhere. Perhaps here:
https://bufferzonesecurity.com/product/how-it-works/
But that seems very "enterprisy" or "sledgehammery". I'd think one
could do a personal version merely with a little clever scripting.
On 03/22/2017 12:44 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
No, but the phishermen are getting better and better all the time. In
some cases, I have to look at the message source, for email, to check
what the real URLs are for the links. I see a lot from the .ru
domains. I don’t really see how people can avoid these scams
without a trove of knowledge that we used to consider ‘geeky’.
--
☣ glen
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