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Korea Post Office Supports XPCOM Based E-Banking

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the isn't-it-about-time dept.

Channy writes "Mozillazine is reporting that the Korean Post Office has decided to support Mozilla Firefox for internet banking and has started the developement project of an XPCOM based internet banking system. From the article: 'In past there were no web browsers for 128 bit encryption except Opera 3.5 for international users when Korea started internet banking services in 1998.'"

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  1. Support for Firefox???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All you need to do is support a standard web browser (without requiring activeX crap to work), and firefox works fine.

    My bank doesn't "support" firefox, but it works great.

  2. Re:Now by strcmp · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why should they drop support for IE? It's still the most widely used browser, despite its many flaws.

    This is no worse than saying that they should drop support for Safari because it's so sparsely used.

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  3. Re:Now by killjoe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The average person will eat whatever you shove down their throat. MS knows that, Politicians know that, why don't you know it?

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  4. Re:who cares by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 3, Insightful

    XPCOM is freely available for anyone to implement (unlike ActiveX). It is more secure than ActiveX and more functional than AJAX.

    Perhaps MS should include XPCOM in IE? There's nothing stopping them, really.

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  5. Re:I can see it now! by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Boss: "Is it unsafe for us or them?"

    You: "Them. It would'nt really effect us. They are just more likely to become victims of identity theft through a virus."
    That's incorrect. In case you haven't noticed, most banks advertize that they'll bail their customers out when they get defrauded. So it does effect the bank, because they have to raise interest rates to cover their losses from fraud.
    Boss: "And what would we do about the advertisements our competitors would air stating that we don't properly support internet banking because we dropped support for IE? Getting new customers might become difficult."
    We tell them that, (apparently) unlike other banks, we care about their financial well-being, and try to do everything possible to ensure a safe electronic banking experience.
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