There are a few alternatives. One is to hand a one-time password generator. Ironic is that HSBC in Korea did use one time password before they're forced by the Korean banking regulation agency to switch to an ActiveX based solution that encrypts the traffic with SEED (a Korean encryption algorithm) and takes care of personal certificate-based authentication and signing. Due to its reliance on ActiveX controls (instead of more platform/browser independent solutions like Java signed applets, we need to use MS IE on Windows to do on-line banking. Linux, Mac and firefox/opera users tried to change this situation, but so far we haven't been successful.
Another is to make mandatory the use of a smartcard with a personal certificate. Unless a smartcard is stolen, a keylogger couldn't do any harm.
Note that the primary supplier is Samsung telecommunication USA (a US subsidy of Samsung electronics). What Samsung will supply is not WiMax but its home-grown WiBro. The news that Samsung cut a deal with Sprint-Nextel for WiBro made a headline in Korean newspapers today.
After witnessing the windows versions of MySQL, Apache and so forth make it unncessary to convert to Linux/*BSD from Windows to use them and help Windows servers be more widely deployed (depriving Linux/*BSD of an advantage or two), I got to understand what Stallman had said : it's not good for free software movement to develop for a non-free OS like Windows. If you wanna use GnuCash, why don't you convert to Linux/*BSD? If that's not so compelling a reason, you have to live with whatever is available for Windows.
Another reason for not supporting IE4 or less is that IE4 or less have a lot of security problems. The fact that they still run IE4 or less indicates that they haven't applied most of important security patches to IE and Windows. Instead of supporting IE4 or eralier, it'd be better to remind them that their computers are vulnerable to a host of problems and they had better apply those security patches asap.
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HSBC in Korea used to do that. I wonder why they didn't do it in the UK.
There are a few alternatives. One is to hand a one-time password generator. Ironic is that HSBC in Korea did use one time password before they're forced by the Korean banking regulation agency to switch to an ActiveX based solution that encrypts the traffic with SEED (a Korean encryption algorithm) and takes care of personal certificate-based authentication and signing. Due to its reliance on ActiveX controls (instead of more platform/browser independent solutions like Java signed applets, we need to use MS IE on Windows to do on-line banking. Linux, Mac and firefox/opera users tried to change this situation, but so far we haven't been successful. Another is to make mandatory the use of a smartcard with a personal certificate. Unless a smartcard is stolen, a keylogger couldn't do any harm.
Note that the primary supplier is Samsung telecommunication USA (a US subsidy of Samsung electronics). What Samsung will supply is not WiMax but its home-grown WiBro. The news that Samsung cut a deal with Sprint-Nextel for WiBro made a headline in Korean newspapers today.
After witnessing the windows versions of MySQL, Apache and so forth make it unncessary to convert to Linux/*BSD from Windows to use them and help Windows servers be more widely deployed (depriving Linux/*BSD of an advantage or two), I got to understand what Stallman had said : it's not good for free software movement to develop for a non-free OS like Windows. If you wanna use GnuCash, why don't you convert to Linux/*BSD? If that's not so compelling a reason, you have to live with whatever is available for Windows.
Another reason for not supporting IE4 or less is that IE4 or less have a lot of security problems. The fact that they still run IE4 or less indicates that they haven't applied most of important security patches to IE and Windows. Instead of supporting IE4 or eralier, it'd be better to remind them that their computers are vulnerable to a host of problems and they had better apply those security patches asap.