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buymybook
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bassexpander
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A number of times over the years, the Korea Herald website has done suspicious things. They were constantly trying to install that MyLinker thing on your computer for a few years. My antivirus used to go nuts over that.
The Korea Times has also been put on the block list by Firefox in the past few months. |
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crusher_of_heads
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| What does that say about Korean culture? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| A number of times over the years, the Korea Herald website has done suspicious things. They were constantly trying to install that MyLinker thing on your computer for a few years. |
The KT website isn't the only one to do things like this. Many of the Korean homegrown sites will do this. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Open Web Korea
http://openweb.or.kr/?page_id=22
How South Korea's Encryption Standard is Holding the Nation Back
the cost of monoculture
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s
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So we end up in 2007, 9 years after SEED was created for Korean users, and one legacy of the fall of Netscape is that Korean computer/Internet users only have an Active X control to do any encrypted communication online. So in late 2006, a group of Korean computer/Internet users, Citizens Action Network at Open Web Korea, having documented the problem with accessibility of sites via anything other than Microsoft IE, have decided to sue the Korean government.
It gets worse.
Remember how Active X controls were and continue to be a significant vector of viruses and malware because Microsoft originally architected Active X to run by default instead of with a user action? Maliciously programmed websites would be able to automatically install software on users' computers just by visiting a web page in IE 6. In IE 7 and in Vista, Microsoft has re-architected Active X controls in such a way to make them "more safe" by requiring a user action for the control to run. This is obviously impacting every web site and company that uses active X controls on their websites, which include just about every website in Korea that handles any kind of secure transaction. Every online bank, every governmental agency, every ecommerce site. Without enough time to re-architect Korean websites, 3 S. Korean governmental ministries, the Ministry of Information and Communication, the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, and the Financial Supervisory Service, warned S. Korean users that upgrading to Vista would disable the user from making any secure transaction online.... |
It's COBOL, Jim, but not as we know it...
"By developing for only Microsoft/Active X you are automatically
eliminating those who use Mac, Linux or means of access that have even
less of a market share...."
http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Cobol/comp.lang.cobol/2008-12/msg00128.html
Same reason Microsoft hasn't killed ActiveX
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=54202&messageID=1026859
When ActiveX is bad...
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=54202&messageID=1027563 |
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