Apple should call PayPal's bluff

April 18, 2008 (Friday) | Safari

PayPal is in another stand-off with Apple over EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, but Steve Jobs & Co. may call the transaction service's bluff. According to Ryan Naraine, PayPal is about to launch a whitepaper that advocates blocking transactions from browsers that don't have anti-phishing protection. This whitepaper is a thinly veiled attempt to get Apple to add EV SSL certificates to Safari. PayPal's latest effort follows comments by CIO Michael Barrett in March. Here's the whitepaper gist: In a white paper that outlines a five-pronged action plan aimed at slowing the phishing epidemic, Barrett said there's a "significant set of [PayPal customers] who use very old and vulnerable browsers" and made it clear that any browser...