Quoting Daniel Dickman <didick...@gmail.com>:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Thornburg
<jth...@astro.indiana.edu> wrote:
Are there other practical ways of securing an OpenBSD web browser?
[I'm afraid "just say no" fails the "practical" test. :( ]
one practical thing I'd love to see is for someone to port the Quark
web browser:
http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
I've no idea if it's good enough for practical use, but it seems like
an interesting piece of work.
I have other approach that has worked for me so far: I created a
virtual machine with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (sorry but I'm new here), and
installed Firefox there and other software I would need like image and
PDF viewers. After installing Firefox I configured things like proxy
and after browsing no page at all shutdown my virtual machine.
Then I start it as read-only, I mean, you can use the virtual machine
as read-write but everything is gone after shutting it down and goes
back to the initial state. I restart it at midnight every day so I
have a newly-installed browser every morning, and I use the browser by
ssh.
So far the biggest drawback to me is not being able to have sound, but
even videos play good enough through the network. If that VM becomes
compromised it will go back to its initial state at midnight, and it's
isolated and with no personal data so a compromise would be very
likely harmless.
Best regards,
Jorge.
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