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In a lot of countries there are government web sites and services that forces citizens to use Windows and specific versions of IE. Some of them used Activex, vb
by mda 15y ago
In a lot of countries there are government web sites and services that forces citizens to use Windows and specific versions of IE. Some of them used Activex, vbscript etc, The worst example I remember is an important web service for drugstores in Turkey that required Microsoft Java VM!
Apparently this is not the case for Russia.
- mattmanser 15y agoA weird case where the more developed nations are being held back by their early adoption!
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoIt's not particularly unusual, other examples are developing nations jumping straight to online banking (skipping chequebooks) or mobile phones (skipping copper phone cables): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
- grifaton 15y agoHave you ever tried to book a rail ticket in Turkey via the Turkish State Railways website? "Using TCDD Online ticket selling project requires internet explorer 5.0 or higher upgrades!"
- damncabbage 15y agoSimilar deal with banks in South Korea typically requiring ActiveX plugins and the like: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/04/28/the-security-of-internet-banking-in-south-korea/ http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/04/28/the-security-of-inter...
- Tsagadai 15y agoSouth Korean banks seem to be oblivious to security research and best practices. ActiveX plugins that install several buggy DLL libraries are only the tip of the iceberg. 64-bit IE fails to open most banks' websites. IE 9 does not work at all. I was even sent a codebook (it has a list of colour-coded numbers which hash to codes, on paper!) by my South Korean bank for internet banking. I thought it was a somewhat archaic practice but physical books of codes do constitute "something you have" for authentication. Then I discovered that my partner had the same book. I disabled internet banking after that.