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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:10:54 +0930

Re: Netscape dropping support for 4.61

Daryl Pilkington wrote:
> 
> St George Bank is claiming Netscape are dropping support of 4.61
> from 24 April 2001.  St George, in a knee-jerk reaction have coded
> their Internet Banking not to accept anything lower than 4.74.

Why knee-jerk?  Netscape has a bug that undermines SSL, so
St George forces customers to upgrade to avoid leakage of
customer data in transit.

I'd like to know why the other banks are so complacent.

Glen

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