PayPal: We won't block Safari

PayPal: We won't block Safari

Jonathan Cremin on 20 April 2008 - 22:02 · 14 comments & 9107 views

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PayPal, the electronic payment service owned by eBay Inc., has denied that it plans to tag Apple Inc.'s Safari as "unsafe" and block it from accessing the site.

"We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple's Safari, from our website," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail late Friday.

PayPal was reacting to reports of a research paper released the week before by Michael Barrett, the firm's chief information security officer, that said the payment service would ban browsers that lacked a way to block known or suspected phishing sites, and didn't support Extended Validation (EV) certificates.

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(2 replies) #1 richardsim7 on 20 Apr 2008 - 22:22

Why would they anyway?

-Rich-

#1.1 +kraized on 20 Apr 2008 - 22:54

(richardsim7 said @ #1)

Why would they anyway?

-Rich-

Because the previous article stated that PayPal would block any browser that didn't support Extended Validation (EV) certificates. Safari doesn't but IE7 does.

#1.2 atari800 on 20 Apr 2008 - 23:04

[sarcasm]What in the name of High School Football?!?!?!?!!? IE does something Safari cant....I must have misread something[/sarcasm]

(1 reply) #2 Beastage on 20 Apr 2008 - 23:33

If Safari is missing an option to make paypal more secure they should not hesitate! block safari on the spot, it would also turn the spotlight on Apple who will have hard time explaining why their "greatest browser ever made!" gets banned from paypal

#2.1 +nezermundy on 20 Apr 2008 - 23:54

Its not just Safari that does not have EV, IE6, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9 do not have EV, it is also really only supported in Vista, as XP you have to turn fishing filter on.

PayPal are only really blocking unsafe browsers in the sense that there rendering engine are out of date.

(4 replies) #3 LTD on 21 Apr 2008 - 00:32

People still use PayPal?

#3.1 kljs on 21 Apr 2008 - 00:47

(LTD said @ #4)

People still use PayPal?

Are there any safer alternatives?

#3.2 +rm20010 on 21 Apr 2008 - 01:15

Of the two hundred or so subscribers on Neowin, a good chunk of us paid dollars to subscribe@neowin.net via Paypal, myself included. So yes, people still use Paypal.

#3.3 Aq3e on 21 Apr 2008 - 01:42

Still using Western Union i see.

#3.4 RAID 0 on 22 Apr 2008 - 08:21

(Aq3e said @ #4.3)

Still using Western Union i see.

Well it is the fastest way to send money.

(1 reply) #4 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#4.1 The Burning Rom on 21 Apr 2008 - 02:55

Trolling FTW

And as stated before, Firefox 2.0 does not support EV certs either

I'm not sure PayPal would ever go as far as blocking any browser. It would be bad PR to do so, and a potential loss of a customer....hence the clarification that this artice brings to the subject.

(1 reply) #5 shinji257 on 21 Apr 2008 - 03:15

I personally won't create a paypal account after they screwed me around. It is a 3 year old issue at this time but I still won't create an account. I will pay via Paypal though sometimes. If and only if I don't need to create an account to do so.

#5.1 RangerLG on 21 Apr 2008 - 14:10

Then I guess you will not have to worry about your browser being blocked, seeing as that is the topic of the article.

#6 +Tews on 21 Apr 2008 - 10:11

LOL ... Im sure ya got em staying up late at nights over that one!

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