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From: "John Beamish"
Would it be possible to visit a "poison" site that causes a
keystroke logger (in, say, a hidden frame or some such) to trap and
transmit back to "home base"?
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:43:20 -0400, Geo wrote:
> "Rich Gauszka" wrote in message
> news:453c58e5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Microsoft has a nice feature ( 'undo disks' ) in Virtual PC to
>> facilitate
> a
>> browser sandbox. You could probaly do something similar in VMware using
>> a
>> 'linked clone'
>
> You may as well just pull the hard drive and boot a knoppix CD. That's
> not
> secure browsing, that's an unmodifiable system that saves nothing beyond
> the
> next reboot.
>
> Secure browsing is where untrusted code cannot change the system, making
> it
> so browsing cannot change the system is not the same thing.
>
> Geo.
>
>
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