It would appear that the eBay owned payment service PayPal is planning to block what it deems as unsafe browsers. PayPal is one of those websites and services which features most prominently in phishing attacks. PayPal said that
“browsers that do not have support for blocking identity theft-related Web sites or for EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are considered “unsafe” for financial transactions.”
Michael Barrett, PayPal Chief Information Security Officer was quoted as saying
“In our view, letting users view the PayPal site on one of these browsers is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles without seat belts,”
Sadly since the Safari browser doesn’t support EV SSL or have any kind of phishing protection then this may be on the list of banned browsers. Obviously older version of IE would also be included and as far as I am aware current versions of Firefox and Opera do not support EV SSL although both have pledged to in future updates.
I am really enjoying using the latest Firefox beta at the moment though, so for now anyway Safari is hiding away on my system. Whether this is all just talk remains to be seen, I don’t think they will do it though.
Cheers
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