Re: wine and security? [slightly long]

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 

Never tried to run ffox in wine, since anything it can do in windows it can 
do in linux. 

> I ask because some web sites refuse to accept a connection from a 
> non-Windows source, and wine has the ability to fool. 

The way they identify the source is through the user-agent string, and there 
are firefox extensions to change your user-agent string to pretend like it's 
IE on WinXP, FFox on WinXp, or whatever.  Most non-ie browsers have some way 
that you can fake the user-agent string to get around stupidity in web-design. 

Matt 

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