In a white paper released last week by PayPal, it announced that it will start showing warnings to customer who access its site using browsers that don’t support some way of web site identification and phishing protection.

“In our view, letting users view the PayPal site on one of these browsers is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles without seatbelts”, reads the white paper authored by Michael Barret and Dan Levy, PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Director of Risk Management for Europe, respectively.

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