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I'm the one who originally first wrote about the situation in S. Korea in the 90s when I was working for Mozilla and we noticed that Firefox had almost no marke
by gkanai 4y ago
I'm the one who originally first wrote about the situation in S. Korea in the 90s when I was working for Mozilla and we noticed that Firefox had almost no market share there.
At the end of the day, it's up to the S. Korean govt. or regulator to make the changes necessary to get rid of this nonsense. The govt./regulators have other issues to deal with so these S. Korean 'tech' companies get to make a mess of citizens' computers and privacy. It's been well over 2 decades of crappy S. Korean software like the keyloggers and whatnot and no end in sight.
If S. Korean citizens cared, they would force the politicians to do something and it would change. They don't, so it doesn't change.
- jinseokim 4y agoDisclaimer: I'm Korean. A LOT of Korean citizens cared and got angry with this issue. So governments, agencies, and. yeah, "security companies", finally decided/declared to deprecate ActiveX-fu softwares and follow Web Standard. We didn't expect WebSocket on localhost.
- palant 4y agoDisclaimer: I am the author of this article. First of all, thank you very much for informing about this issue. I still remember reading the article you wrote back in 2007, and it really helped me navigate this situation. I doubt that people in South Korea care so little about it however. Otherwise articles citing an unnamed “famous hacker” about how all of this isn’t really bad and how I misunderstand the domestic security market wouldn’t have been necessary. It seems that lots of uncomfortable questions are being asked right now. Whether this will be sufficient to produce some real change for the better is a different question of course. I sincerely hope that it will.