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Re:Update on campaign targeting security researchers by bawolff on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:59PM (#26656156)
I wonder why they needed an active x control for that. TLS/SSL client certificates have been supported by all browsers since basically forever, going back even further than active x.
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Re:Update on campaign targeting security researchers by thephyber on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:19PM (#26656293)
If I had to guess, HTTPS / SSL was governed by US export restrictions above a certain strength so S Korea managed to use the existing extensibility built into the browser the government wanted to support.
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