Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council

[bluebolt]

Endicia provides "internet-based postage services for e-commerce businesses" such as their DAZzle software for buying and printing postage.  A couple of months ago they sent the following notice:

Action Required: Update Your Operating System and Browser

In order to continue using Endicia, we strongly recommend that you update your operating system and/or internet browser by June 30, 2018. After that date, our software and website will no longer be supported, and may no longer function, on the following operating systems and internet browsers:

    • Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Microsoft Windows XP
    • Microsoft Windows 2003
    • MacOS 10.8 and below
    • Internet Explorer versions 10 and below
    • Mozilla Firefox versions 26 and below
    • Google Chrome versions 29 and below
    • Apple Safari versions 6 and below

Similar moves have come from other quarters.  The United States Postal Service cut off XP and/or older browser access to USPS Tracking as of April 30 (can be circumvented by browser spoof for now).  Recently a similar move was made by PayPal (can be circumvented by browser spoof for now).  Then a warning came from YouTube when using their website with Windows XP (must click to acknowledge the warning, then the site is accessible).

Anyway, a couple of days ago this message appeared when opening Endicia's DAZzle software:
 

A nice change of heart, and one that implicates the payment card industry for at least some of these artificial restrictions against Windows XP on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Security_Standards_Council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard

[Dibya]

cannot we spoof it?

[FranceBB]

As to PayPal and YouTube, I use Chromium 54 and I never received a warning from them. I didn't change my browser spoofer, which correctly reports Windows XP Chromium 54. I think that the warning you got might be related to Chrome 49, the last version supported for XP which is actually quite old now and does have security issues.

Edited July 15, 2018 by FranceBB

[bluebolt]

These warnings do seem to be pretty spotty, at least that's the sense I get from the scattered reports from members here.  The YouTube notice came up on my parents' machine before I changed the apparent browser on that one.  These instances are all on machines running the latest Firefox esr.  Just have to hope the powers that be don't dig any deeper, so that simply overriding the user agent continues to do the trick.  Of course software (e.g. DAZzle) is another matter.