Vista and ActiveX in South Korea

[daynah]

News Article

South Korea's Government is suggesting that its citizens not install Vista because of how dependant its company's websites are on ActiveX.

[x64Jimbo]

The short explanation is that S. Korea's banks were some of the first in the world to make their services available online. At the time, web browsers didn't support SSL encryption, so they took the only route that they could at the time, and wrote an ActiveX control that handled the encrypted data transport. Now, all the major browsers support SSL, but these banks have based their entire websites on the ActiveX controls that they built, so switching to SSL would be extremely expensive. They're in a bind, all right. It's basically a rock and a hard place situation.

[Jeffj]

I've been in South Korea for about 7 months. The active X crap is crazy.
There is one cool part. You get a key you can carry with you on a floppy
or a flash drive. It seems more secure than just using a password alone.

Is it possible to interface with the banks website without using activex?
If I run activeX under Linux will that be enough?

-Jeff

[lakersforce]

You get a key you can carry with you on a floppy
or a flash drive. It seems more secure than just using a password alone.

I have that for my net-banking too. But I still need to use ActiveX to use it. And it does not work with IE4linux. So that is another reason that I am keeping a windows partition.

[x64Jimbo]

It also does not work with Macs, and since their adoption is accelerating, expect to see a shift in the way that personal information is handled on the web.