“Consumers wanting to safely connect to their internet banking service should use Linux or the Apple iPhone, according to a detective inspector from the NSW Police, who was giving evidence on behalf of the NSW Government at the public hearing into Cybercrime today in Sydney,” Munir Kotadia reports for iTnews.

“Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect himself from cybercriminals when banking online,” Kotadia reports. “The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the banking site and the second was to avoid Microsoft Windows.”

Kotadia reports, “Van der Graaf said he mentioned the two alternatives to Windows because he was concerned about any future law that could require internet service providers or banks to check their users had protection before allowing them to connect. ‘If you had a rule where ISPs would have to check for firewalls or that sort of thing, people using this safer system would not be able to do their internet banking. People using an iPhone, which is quite safe, would then not be able to do their internet banking,’ he added.”

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Van der Graaf obviously forgot to mention that users who lack an iPhone or access to the server room could simply use their Macs instead.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Michael C." for the heads up.]