Re: wine and security [slightly long]?

[hike <mh1272@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Pat Riehecky <prieheck@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 06:16 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
> > What are people's experiences and insights to running, say, firefox 3
> under
> > Wine and viewing sensitive information (medical records, credit report,
> etc) vs
> > viewing the same information in the native host OS?
> > SSL is _always_ monitored at all times.
> >
> > I ask because some web sites refuse to accept a connection from a
> non-Windows
> > source, and wine has the ability to fool.
> >
> > Are warnings/errors/issues such as these anything to be concerned about
> for
> > viewing such information mentioed above?
>
> In the past I have used
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
>
> To fool sources that require IE.  YMMV but it was great for me for a
> time.
>
> Pat
>
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wine is only as good as its underlying OS.
it must be much better the Windows!

other browsers will also act like IE: opera (and maybe konquerer?)
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