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Korea mandated through legislation that all online shopping had to go through ActiveX controls, because that was the only way to guarantee secure encryption at
by danudey 10y ago
Korea mandated through legislation that all online shopping had to go through ActiveX controls, because that was the only way to guarantee secure encryption at the time. Now it's practically the least secure way to online shop and even Microsoft recommends not using ActiveX, but it's a huge amount of work to strip that infrastructure out and make everything work 'properly' so it's still an issue even today.
In short, legislating a solution is a workaround that can turn out to be a huge detriment not too long down the road. I'm no libertarian, but it seems like a bad idea to me.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThat's a good point - especially important if someone's thinking about legislating a particular technology. On the other hand, maybe in this case it would be enough to legislate a requirement for openness of the protocol? I.e. whatever it is, if it has enough many users, it has to be fully available to third party integrations.
- IanCal 10y agoThis feels reminiscent of net neutrality and also general competition laws. I wonder if there's something in that which could be drawn upon?
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoWhat about SMS? Everyone has it, it works, and is usually fairly instant. It's not very feature rich, but could there be an SMS 2.0 protocol that was backward compatible?
- hiptobecubic 10y agoIsn't this RCS?
- i336_ 10y agoThat was interesting to google. The first link I got: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/south_korea_to_deport_microsoft_activex/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/south_korea_to_depo...
- sitkack 10y agoSounds like a straw man, just because South Korea made a mistake doesn't mean legislating a standard is bad.