Re: getross - email privacy /security of system
Ryan Barrett <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ross wrote: > I am sure somebody uses it or they would have abandoned it long ago. Mozilla > is recognized by financial websites & prefered for most all applications at > same. for the record, some banks and financial services co's may prefer mozilla software, but definitely not the majority. (i say that based on having written a couple large financial transaction processing systems, and having interacted with some of the big players.) the main concerns are usually 1) SSL/TLS encryption and key length, 2) cert handling, and 3) browser security holes. in recent history, at least, i'm not sure that IE's track record on those is significantly worse than firefox's. even if it is, most of the financial co's haven't changed their stance...yet. of course, public opinion might differ, but public opinion rarely reflects just the facts. :P -Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info