11 Feb
2020
11 Feb
'20
3:42 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:20:49 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'In May 2019, South Korea's Interior Ministry announced plans to look into switching to the Linux desktop from Windows.'
As I recall, South Korea was one of the first countries in the world, if not the first, to roll out secure online banking for its citizens. Only, they mandated the use of a proprietary plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to provide the security. And this remained the official standard for quite a while after other countries had adopted strong, open-standard SSL/TLS encryption and more modern browsers. I assume that’s all past history now ...