South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:28AM from the so-it's-inactive-x? dept.

jones_supa writes The reliance on proprietary technologies to deliver web services varies from country to country. South Korea's ActiveX problem has been in the news before. Yonhap brings us a short report that the government plans to finally start cleaning up this troublesome technology from public websites later this month, as Korea gears up to create a more friendly Internet environment. The country's online financial websites and shopping malls often use ActiveX to have their payments and identification programs securely downloaded to users' personal computers.

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From a simpler era by Baldrake · 2015-03-21 02:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

I worked with ActiveX technology close to 15 years ago. It was a much simpler era, where there was little need to worry about platforms other than Windows+IE, and where most of us hadn't really caught on yet to how ruthless the hackers were going to become. And frankly there wasn't a whole lot of alternative for pushing real app functionality from the web in those days. Some people were using Java, which certainly wasn't any more secure, and eventually Flash began to gain traction. So it's not completely hard to understand how we got where we are.