PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers

Alternative Details brings news that PayPal is developing a plan to stop users from accessing its financial services if they aren't using browsers with anti-phishing protection. PayPal is recommending the use of blacklists, anti-fraud warning pages, and EV SSL certificates. Browsers without anti-phishing features will be considered "unsafe." It seems likely Safari will be included in this category given PayPal's warning about the Apple browser last month. "'At PayPal, we are in the process of reimplementing controls which will first warn our customers when logging in to PayPal of those browsers that we consider unsafe. Later, we plan on blocking customers from accessing the site from the most unsafe--usually the oldest--browsers,' he declared. Barrett only mentioned old, out-of-support versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer among this group of 'unsafe browsers,' but it's clear his warning extends to Apple's Safari browser, which offers no anti-phishing protection and does not support the use of EV SSL certificates."

Comments

Re:Who are they to decide what is and isn't safe?

[corsec67]

You aren't at all mistaken:

Paypal doesn't give a shit about anything but making money from themselves, and don't hesitate to take money from anybodys account for almost any reason.

PayPalSucks.com

It is kind of silly, forcing people to access PayPal with secure browsers when money stored at PayPal isn't secure from PayPal itself.
(PayPal isn't a bank, nor does it even try to pretend to be one, so don't let them have any EFT account numbers, and never store any money there.)

Re:Yes.

[Stanislav_J]

Most definitely not required to hold elected office, either.