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South Korea's dependence on Windows seems to continue; I wonder how much is related to SEED, the weird crypto-via-ActiveX implementation that's held them hostage all these years. (http://kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s)


That post is from 2007, are they STILL stuck with this?


Yep. It's hard to make that sort of hack just 'go away' without sunsetting most of Korea's e-commerce sites. At least as of last year, it was important enough to be mentioned as an election issue in Nov. 2012:

http://www.geek.com/news/korean-presidential-hopeful-pledges...




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