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PayPal Denies It Will Block Safari

Posted by kdawson on from the phishing-for-apples dept.

Despite reports that PayPal may drop support for Apple's Safari browser because it lacks anti-phishing features, PayPal now says it ain't so. Though PayPal telegraphed displeasure with Safari last January, they're now unambiguous about their position: "We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple's Safari, from our website."

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  1. Re:Backpedaling faster tha you can say... by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They never said that they'd block it in the first place.
    They said that they would block the insecure browsers.

    Specifically browsers like IE 5.5 which is old and should never be used anymore.

  2. Re:Wish Apple Would Fix it by JustCallMeRich · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wish apple would fix Safari (and Mail too) to better display the actual targets of links. View menu - Show Status Bar.

    Now you have a little bar at the bottom of Safari that shows you the actual target of links.
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  3. Trying with Lynx: by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 5, Informative

    lynx https://www.paypal.com/
    SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: cookie_check=yes Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: navcmd=_home-general Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: navlns=0.0 Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    # FINALLY there's a homepage. "Member Log In" is on the second page.
    SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    Refresh: 1 seconds
    https://.../
    SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
    www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y ...

    Ok, if I'd hit "a" to those cookies, it would've been a lot better. And there are a fscking LOT of cookies.

    Now, I haven't actually tried to do anything with it so far, but I suspect that it would, in fact, work just fine. It's curious that it doesn't like the SSL -- I suspect that's a problem with my version of Lynx, as Firefox and Konqueror don't give me any SSL warnings. But other than that, Paypal isn't doing anything to block Lynx, and it looks reasonably navigateable.

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