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Re:Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on J... by dtech on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:56AM (#10626158)
That sounds like a prime example of incredible technical incompetence of the lawmakers or incredibly good lobbying by MS. Maybe both.
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Re:Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on J... by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:34AM (#10626486)
It made some sense at the time the law was conceived. SSL was crippled to uselessness by US export restrictions. IE 6 had a monopoly. So they built their own much more secure encryption (using ActiveX to plug into IE) and mandated its use for everything that matters.

The incompetence was in mandating a certain implementation instead of writing a technology-neutral law requiring a certain security level.

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Re:Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on J... by scholia on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @10:48AM (#10627714)
Interesting! So bad actions by the US gov led to bad results for US companies....
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Re:Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on J... by Rhinobird on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @04:56PM (#10630009)
Bad actions by the US gov led to bad workarounds by other govs
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