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Debian used to be so good. What happened!?
(lemmy.world)
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My bank used to complain that my browser was out of date. I wrote an email to customer service explaining to them that:
A) debian's "out of date" browser actually includes all up to date security patches. B) simply reading the browser agent isnt really security. I had simply been spoofing my browser agent to get around their silly browser "security" policy
They removed the browser check 2 weeks later. Not sure if it was because of me
It's not for their security, but for that of genuinely clueless people that are just running an actually outdated browser that might have known and exploitable security flaws.
It is not about security at all. They do not want to test or support old browsers. So, they set a minimum version and tell you that you need to upgrade to that.
If they only support one browser, it is going to be Chrome. Chrome has more zero-day vulnerabilities than any other project I can think of. It is not about security.
Yeah if it were about security they'd check the version of HTTPS, SSL, TLS and all that stuff.
Doing that would tell you nothing about whether the browser might have un-patched, known vulnerabilities elsewhere.