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by hagbarddenstore 1336 days ago
My old Macbook is 9 years old. It has no issues what so ever with browsing the web.

The customer must be running some truly ancient version of Mac OS for this story to be true.

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email is not the same as the web. HTTPS seem a bit more permissible than smtp/imap. That said I know that some banking sites do reject old version of browsers on the basis of security.

Some providers (email and others) can also continue to support deprecated/broken security for a very long time in order to not having to deal with customers using old deprecated software. 512 bits RSA public keys for example was used a very long time, long past where different standards and recommendation had a much higher minimum. Algorithm and key attacks are quite rare so companies can keep a low security standard for many years/decades before anyone exploits it. For customers that could be seen as a positive or a negative depending on perspective.