Korea Post Office Supports XPCOM Based E-Banking 144
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.'"
Now (Score:2, Interesting)
Also quite the undertaking switching 4700 from windows to linux.
Yay for Korea and Korean memes!
Re:Now (Score:2, Interesting)
Great news! (Score:2, Interesting)
Not quite following... (Score:5, Interesting)
Because they were unable to use 128bit SSL in 1998, they are going to develop internet banking that is dependent on Mozilla XPCOM, instead of taking a cross platform standard SSL approach now?
While Mozilla is ostensibly a better platform to be locked into than Microsoft, is this really a big benefit?
Someone please translate for the layman (me)
Re:which korea? (Score:3, Interesting)
(You're completely mistaken if you think that North and South Korea would want anything to do with each other. Here's a hint: there's troops on each side of the border between them.)
Re:Now (Score:2, Interesting)
A better solution, of course, is to have a banking system that is not dependent on the underlying browser architecture.
Re:which korea? (Score:3, Interesting)
Post office (Score:5, Interesting)
I can see it now! (Score:5, Interesting)
You: "Well, sir. I think we should block out Internet Explorer users because their browser is unsafe."
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."
Boss: "Can they also get the same virus through an email attachment? Or by someone digging through their trash?"
You: "... yes."
Boss: "How many of our customers use IE?"
You: "About 80%"
Boss: "And what is there to prevent them from moving to another bank that DOES support their browser?"
You: "Well, that would be a lot of trouble for them to go through. It's easier to just download a safe browser."
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."
You: "Well
(Long Pause)
Boss: "While we are at it, why don't we refuse entry to SUVs in the drive-thru ATM because the customer is more likely to scratch his paint and he is wasting the gas he paid for? You should stick to IT, you don't know jack about how a business works. "
Re:Not quite following... (Score:2, Interesting)
My personal opinion is, that the existing e-banking system in Korea is substandard. ActiveX requires admin on XP to install and most banks install 2-3 other activeX. This has to stop. Somebody has to educate these guys how to do e-banking.
Re:Misinformation about ActiveX/DCOM (Score:3, Interesting)
-Don
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