Feb 28

PayPal has shown some concern over Apple's Safari browser due to lack of anti-phishing features. The Chief Information Security Officer of PayPal said,

"Apple unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers. Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera."

The two main reasons why PayPal is anti-Safari are:

1) There is no built-in filter to warn users of phishing possibilities.

2) Safari is lacking support for Extended Validation (EV) certificates.

What EV does is to turn the URL green to let you know you are surfing a "safe" website. PayPal themselves have used EV for over a year and IE 7 also uses it.

Apple claims that the majority of internet users don't even realize that a site is using EV certificates unless if they are trained in what to look for. PayPal begs to differ, stating that the number of people that leave their site has lessened since installing EV certificates.

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Jan 21

Many people are searching for answers to the big question: How do I unlock my iPhone? There are a variety of different ways you can get an unlocked iPhone these days - buy one online, send your iPhone to get unlocked by an online service, or attempt to unlock your own iPhone.

If you aren't looking to unlock the iPhone's phone service, but want to unblock some of the phone's features such as wi-fi and safari, check out the tutorial at this site.

Here, they offer a patch you can download for free which will unlock your iphone (not the phone part). The tutorial is only a couple of steps, and you'll be surfing the web on your iPhone in no time. They also have plans for a future patch that will allow you to fully unlock your iPhone for use with different phone carriers, so stay tuned!

Note - I haven't actually had a chance to try this patch out, so if anyone has, please  let us know what you think!

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