Article - Four best practices for Web Browser Security on your Linux Workstation

[TWPonKubuntu]

Remember the missing brain cells, everyday is a new experience I get to read the same comics three or four times a day. life is good!

[SpecialEd]

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GG: I read XKCD comics daily, along with Dilbert...

I'd read XKCD daily too if I could... but since it is only published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, I just haven't been able to figure out how...

[GreyGeek]

Not quite there yet (close, but no cigar), but I lost brains cells in my youth and could never find them again...

I can understand why those 19.996 people kept them in a wallet... I've done that until the paper was unreadable...

Or like me ... forgot you kept them there!

[TWPonKubuntu]

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So, you've aged beyond your 70th birthday too, eh? So sad.

Not quite there yet (close, but no cigar), but I lost brains cells in my youth and could never find them again...

I can understand why those 19.996 people kept them in a wallet... I've done that until the paper was unreadable...

[GreyGeek]

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Seriously, there are many ways to create a rather long password AND be able to remember it without writing it on a sticky pad on the monitor.

There were 400 work stations at the dept of revenue, where I retired from. 95% of them had their login password written on a sticky note and plastered to their monitor, or under their keyboard. The tricky ones pasted it on the underside of one of their desk drawers. It was never a problem to locate it. 4.999% kept their passwords on a paper tucked into their wallet or purse. A very few kept it in their memory.

Not so seriously, what was your name again? I don't remember.

So, you've aged beyond your 70th birthday too, eh? So sad.

[TWPonKubuntu]

Removing my tongue from where it was firmly implanted in my cheek...

GG: I read XKCD comics daily, along with Dilbert...

whatthefunk: nope, couldn't get the bank to accept "qwertyuiop". Somebody else must be using it...

For the record, I don't even have a bank account for which a password might be needed. Life was simpler when we buried our money in the back yard... Back when money was worth something.

Seriously, there are many ways to create a rather long password AND be able to remember it without writing it on a sticky pad on the monitor.

Not so seriously, what was your name again? I don't remember.

[whatthefunk]

Your bank is telling you that a password is already in use? By you?

[GreyGeek]

The longer the password the better. Many password input parsers won't allow spaces or some special keys. Thus, "my bank won't speak 2 me" is an excellent password but usually not accepted. There is an excellent cartoon that illustrates the stupidity of it all.

[TWPonKubuntu]

But, but, but, my password has always been "123456789". You mean I should change it? It's never been a problem before.

I suppose I can use "quertyuiop", they'll never crack that one!

[EDIT] I tried it, but my bank keeps telling me it is already in use and that I should use numbers AND punctuation characters in my password.
So now I use "my-bank-won't-speak-2-me".

Perhaps I should really use "I'm2stupid4computers"? What do you think? Too complicated?

[whatthefunk]

They forgot the most important one: use good passwords.

[GreyGeek]

I've been dividing my web activity between two browsers for quite a while. I use Vivaldi and FF. FF I use for less secure purposes.


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[TWPonKubuntu]

I found this article and though it worth linking here:

https://www.linux.com/news/linux-wor...ux-workstation

I do have a disagreement on the recommendation for chrome/chromium as a parallel browser (read the article). My distrust of anything google(r)ish will prevent me from using their tools. I would use some other browser.

I found the rest of the article, particularly the idea of separating the types of access between two browsers to be workable, but perhaps cumbersome. My system can certainly support simultaneous browser operations, but the need to make conscious choices about which to use will stop some people from doing this.