Secure BANKING on Linux with Linux Mint

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• THANK YOU SO MUCH !

  I was just looking for something like this.

  👍

• I recently switched to Linux Mint from Arch. I'm writing my first novel and I need an OS that just works and without rolling release. I feel that Mint is perfect distribution for authors. 🙂

• Warning! Uninstalling software that comes with Linux Mint is not always safe. I found out the hard way when it removed my desktop. I am still waiting for someone to publish a list of the Linux Mint programs we can uninstall without it removing my desktop. Why does Linux Mint make it so easy to remove programs by clicking on uninstall that also remove Gnome at the same time?

• love how each video of yours has its own unique flavor!

• Love this. Thank you!

• Do you have another video that explains what is LVM?

• Tom I too now just use Linux Mint XFCE for my banking as well by using a USB flash drive just like you did and it works like a charm no issues whatever and I too use the Web App that Linux Mint has developed as I fully trust Linux Mint team as before I was using Linux Mint XFCE but my main machine but now you made an excellent point of what if your main machine gets hacked then bye bye money which is DANGEROUS OMG so now I use a USB flash drive $20 bucks here across the lake which is nothing now a days $20 so best $20 I ever spend on BestBuy and now when I want to do my banking I just plug my Banking OS which is what I call it Banking OS LOL yes I know not very creative but then not important and go to town doing my banking and checking on my S&P 500 index fund because that how your wealth grows plus retail is not so great here in Canada welll the prices for houses are droping but only by 50000 which a lot but I decided not going to buy a house for rent just yet maybe in 10 years time when Canada gets their head of the sand and look around AKA government so I have passive income baby yeah give mama money LOL anyways Tom great video because it is educational and related to open source and Linux and Linux Mint so A+++ in my book 🙂

• I tried this procedure on my old HP AMD (pre-Ryzen) "A" series APU laptop where I normally run Linux Mint (after removing the boot drive as you said). After completing everything, my thumb drive would crash. Then I remembered that in one of the recent Mint kernel updates, I had the same problem on that old laptop. to solve it I had to edit the grub file everywhere (/etc/grub.d, /boot/grub, etc., then sudo update-grub). I don't know if this is only an AMD old graphics chip thing???
  So I rebooted back to the laptop Linux Mint, connected the newly created thumbdrive, then edited all the "grub" files I could find that were not encrypted. Search for "quiet splash", then append "nomodeset" everywhere you find that string. I was then able to boot and get into the encrypted drive where I repeated the grub change everywhere. (I forget all the places, but like /etc/default/grub, /boot/grub, etc.,) I did run sudo update-grub for good measure. Anyway, I hope this may help anyone else out there who may have an old machine with some kind of graphics card issue.

• I live in gemany, and i use the software "moneyplex" for online banking. I use it with a secos chipcard and class3 chipcardreader. In this combination, the pin of the chipcard would never be entered on the computer but always on the chipcardreader. With the "secoder–2" support enabled in the software, the cardreader shows each transaction on its display and ask for confirmation. The computer can not manipulate the display of this data on the cardeader, the cardeader displays the data, that will be signed by the chipcard, so if some kind of malware manipulates the transaction data, the cardreader shows the manipulated data and i can see the manipulation, before it wlll be sent and i have the chance to abort. In my opinion, this is the most secure method for online banking. But here in germany, there are not so many people using this method (FinTS 3.0 with RSA chipcard and class 3 chipcardreader with "secos-2" functionality).

• Thank you for posting.

• There are public keys and private keys to the back door of all Linux system distributors buyer beware and who knows who has all these keys

• By the way… that Hasleo disc copy only works on actual internal drives. Maybe I missed it in your description.
  For USB you need WinToUsb… but it is not free.

• I like to use MX Linux instead for this. It’s live usb maker tool supports encryption and if you make it a read only drive it won’t wear out too quickly.

• When you mentioned some of the issues with using a phone for banking. A thing criminals are doing now in my country is they will hold you at gunpoint and demand you clean out your bank account from your phone. I have never liked banking by phone as I could see it was a major security issue. Though not having the banking app on my phone throws the tellers at the bank for a loop when you try to get help from them. They want to send you to the app to do things. Heck I don't even have tap and go on my cards.

  One has to decide how much security are you willing to give up to how much ease of use you will get in return. And to me the risks are just too high. Also doing it this way stops me from just spending wrecklessly. As I have to make an effort to do a payment and therefore more time to think about it before I do.

• Doesn't qubes work like that?

• I have a pnc 1 Gb thumb drive from about 16 years ago that has outlasted several newer sandisk 16 and 32 Gb thumbdrives.

  The old pnc drive has a cap over the connector as opposed to the sandisk ones being retractable, with the end being exposed. Not sure if this is the difference or is pnc a better drive? Or maybe the older druves were more durable.

• Hi, I did a search for the Webapps Manager. I found an UNSECURE Linux Mint page that had download links, but Brave browser refused to download the file. I found another link on another site, I downloaded aqnd installed it, but then it wouldn't work with any browser. Please help. Thanks.

• Solid video Tom…I think this is a great idea for some really secure banking. Keep these videos coming ! 🙂

• 1. ISO check is integrated in Mint Cinnamon's Nemo file manager, and also in others, like Double Commander, so is much easier than looking with eyes.
  2. Linux Mint installer puts the boot loader to the first drive by default, it's not a bug, you can change it during installation, you just must pay attention.
  3. Check the Firefox Multi Account Container add-in, is also a good thing for isolating (sand boxing) web pages separately, using this for banking, shopping, and other things, created a Google container for Gmail, one for YT, also you can install Facebook container add-in, also a Google container, no really need for different browsers.

• Now this is out on the open. Is it still secure?

• I really enjoyed this kind of video Tom, considering the massive increase of cybersecurity incidents lately this tutorial is definitely timely. You could do something similar with a raspberry pi with a minimalist Linux install for a more portable, non-PC/Mac invasive hardware compromised system.

• Your use of specialized hardware, e.g., the ability to power-off the hard drive, destroys the usefulness of this tutorial. That's where I checked out.

• It's a shame Peppermint changed the way they did. I can see how Linux Mint would be a good and secure platform for banking. Thanks Tom.

• One could compare the checksums without eyeballing it as well.

  echo "<known SHA 256 sum of the file> <name of the file>" | sha256sum -c

• Tom..If you haven't done so already..Can you do a tutorial on setting/using up website passkeys on Linux Mint? Thanks!

• Best, most secure banking and other – system is QuebesOS ;)) but Little hard in use😂

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