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 > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
