On 2015-11-02 13:03:14 +0000, Brian wrote: > The reason you advance is probably the one which bank's IT section would > give if you asked them. Quite how a user's browser can compromise the > security of the site itself is unlikely to be explained.
The user's browser cannot compromise the site itself. But a security bug may permit an attacker to get the user's login and password, and neither the bank nor the user would like this. > The OP could look at > > https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel#User-Agent_string Note that if the user tries to overrides the bank security decision and has his bank account compromised, he will probably get the full responsibility. I would definitely not recommend to do this. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)