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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) by tinus_hn on Saturday October 02, 2021 @03:46AM (#28726812)
Didn’t they use ActiveX plug-ins for their authentication?
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Re:A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) by iudqnolq on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:51AM (#28729563)
It was surprisingly reasonable. They developed their own standard because the US restricted the export of strong SSL, and then had a hard time upgrading when that changed.
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