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I thought it would be a good idea to use a Live CD of Ubuntu to do all my financial transactions online, I figure thats the safest way since any virus/trojan cannot infect the Live CD?
Just one question, how safe is it to use Linux as a whole for this kind of use? (I mean, Linux and all the apps are open source and written by just about anybody, so how can I be sure that even the Ubuntu Live CD doesnt have any sort of keylogger etc installed? After all, with so many lines of code, I'm sure someone could have sneaked in something like that?)
I don't know if I'm being paranoid, but it would help if someone has answers or links talking about this specific aspect? Also, is there a geek-word for such "sneaking in of malicious software" (apart from "trojan" of course :)
1Did you mean "nobody's going to overlook this"? – None – 2010-07-26T06:33:44.363
Or "nobody's NOT going to notice this" ? – Zabba – 2010-07-26T07:04:06.523
@Zabba: Nobody should not know to avoid double negatives. :) – None – 2010-07-26T07:17:54.827
Woops. big mistake hehe – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-07-26T07:38:31.680