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I would like to set up a computer at home (preferably running Debian, or some ot

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Question

I would like to set up a computer at home (preferably running Debian, or some other flavor of Linux) to be used only for secure financial transactions.

The idea is that, by strictly limiting what is done with this computer to a small set of operations it will be easier to keep it secure.

I imagine that this is something that many people would like to do but I have not found a good set up of instructions for implementing. I can only find instructions/checklists for securing/hardening a general-purpose computer, which I figure should be more difficult than what I want to do, and maybe produce a less secure system.

Maybe I have not hit on the right search terms?

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Explanation / Answer

Not quite sure what your exact question is in here. Anyways,

When you follow all these steps, you should have a quite safe home machine!