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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: evssl</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/evssl.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-04-19T10:45:52+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/19/paypal/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-04-19T10:45:52+00:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T10:45:52+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/19/paypal/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/PayPal-Plans-to-Ban-Unsafe-Browsers/"&gt;PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
At first I thought they were going to encourage real anti-phishing features in browsers, which would be a big win for OpenID... but it turns out they’re just requiring EV SSL certificates which have been proven not to actually work.


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