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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by w1ntermute on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:33AM (#4455102)
At least you guys don't have a system that uses ActiveX. That's how it is in South Korea[0], supposedly the world's "most wired" nation. You can only use IE, on Windows, to access online banking services. Things are slowly getting better thanks to the explosion of iPhone/iPad/Mac popularity in Korea (particularly the iPhone), but even now, IE has more than 91% market share in South Korea[1].

0: http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

1: http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2012/05/29/browser-competition-i...

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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by justincormack on Thursday August 30, 2012 @11:59AM (#4455228)
Indeed. This is a typical South Korean bank website[1]. I despair.

[1] http://www.globalibk.com/home.jsp

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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by slig on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:23PM (#4455352)
The page won't even show up.

    if(typeof(navigator.appName)=='undefined' || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")<0)  {
        top.wgmain.location.href='about:blank';
        alert('Microsoft Internet Explorer 사용자만 사용가능합니다.');
        return false;
    }
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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by jff on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:45PM (#4455475)
Wow that Javascript sure is interesting, glad you pasted it three goddamn times!
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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by slig on Thursday August 30, 2012 @01:03PM (#4455582)
Sorry. HN seemed to have chewed up and I didn't check my threads link to see if it had worked or not.
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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by jff on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:03PM (#4456792)
Yeah, my reply was rude--I'd delete it if I could but I guess I've passed the point of no return. I can certainly sympathize with software screwing you over.
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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by w1ntermute on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:19PM (#4455321)
Yep, they don't even let you access the site without spoofing your user ID. For example, for that site in Chrome you get:

> Microsoft Internet Explorer 사용자만 사용가능합니다.

Translation: Only Microsoft Internet Explorer users can use the site.

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Re:Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April by kalininalex on Thursday August 30, 2012 @12:31PM (#4455406)
We need a screenshot.
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