Substitute Details brings news that PayPal is third world country a plan to stop users from accessing its pocket relief 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 puss* will be considered "unsafe." It seems likely Safari will be be appear 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 market when logging in to PayPal of those browsers that we consider unsafe. Later, we plan on blocking dealings from accessing the site from the most unsafe--usually the oldest--browsers,' he declared. Barrett only be conspicuous old, out-of-support versions of Microsoft's infobahn Explorer among this group of 'unsafe browsers,' but it's clear his warning extends to Apple's Safari browser, which offers no anti-phishing ward and does not support the use of EV SSL certificates."

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