Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-13 Thread Rony
Mohan Nayaka wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting article and it mentions the sudo vulnerability that I mentioned in the earlier mail. since a long time I have been using sudo with password entry set for every time. Anyway guys what extra

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-13 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: I don't want to stop scripts, only bad ones. Anyway I will look up noscript. Thanks. The idea would be to disable all scripting and then only allow on a case to case basis. But that can become quite frustrating due to the fact

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-12 Thread jtd
On Monday 11 May 2009, Anurag wrote: 2009/5/11 Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-12 Thread Rony
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-12 Thread Rony
Anurag wrote: 2009/5/11 Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute permission

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-12 Thread Rony
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to find the blog post off-hand, I think someone at work had pointed us to it. Will post the link when I find it. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-12 Thread Mohan Nayaka
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to find the blog post off-hand, I think someone at work had pointed us to it. Will post the link

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Rony
Anurag wrote: 2009/5/10 Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com: Hello, My family members were checking some information on google using the laptop loaded with Lenny. After some time, they got a message saying that there was a lot of trojan and 'blah blah' infection in their system and they should

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Anurag anu...@gnuer.org wrote: From what I understand of mozilla's javascript engine, it runs inside a sandbox and has no permission to do anything with the operating system. A javascript code wouldn't be able to automagically download files and set chmod

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyare...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to find the blog post off-hand, I think someone at work had pointed us to it. Will post the link when I find it. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229 http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6236

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Dinesh A. Joshi
Rony wrote: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute permission barrier? Uhm...well it is very much

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Anurag
2009/5/11 Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute permission barrier? From what I

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com wrote: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Browsing Security

2009-05-11 Thread Anurag
2009/5/11 Rony gnulinux...@gmail.com: It was just that but my query is how secure is browsing in Linux if javascript is enabled, given the fact that this sticky window would refuse to go? Does enabling of scripting in firefox bypass the Unix file self execute permission barrier? From what I