Friday, April 18, 2008

PayPal Plans to Ban Browsers Which Lack Anti-Phishing Features

Daring Fireball posted PayPal Plans to Ban Browsers Which Lack Anti-Phishing Features. Looks like PayPal listened to the feedback on their assertion that phishing feature-less browsers were unsafe by ratcheting up the rhetoric a notch and planning a full on ban. Article says the only browsers on the unsafe list are old Internet Explorer versions, but Safari is in it's sites because of the lack of anti-phising and EV certificates. So PayPal, if you are going forward with this ban, why don't you share all your internal data about how effective the measures you are touting are? I love this section heading from the eWeek article:

EV Certificates Unproven, but Best Solution Yet