{"id":4109,"date":"2012-05-10T01:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2012-05-10T01:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:30:50","slug":"for-worlds-most-wired-country-breaking-internet-monopoly-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"For world\u2019s most wired country, breaking Internet monopoly is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At the end of the 1990s, Korea developed its own encryption technology, SEED, with the aim of securing e-commerce. Users must supply a digital certificate, protected by a personal password, for any online transaction in order to prove their identity. For Web sites to be able to verify the certificates, the technology requires users to install a Microsoft ActiveX plug-in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/news\/biz\/2012\/04\/123_109059.html\">For world\u2019s most wired country, breaking Internet monopoly is hard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"font\">But mandating the technology had a host of side effects that, according to Kim, the FSS either largely ignored or didn&#8217;t predict. It forced consumers to use Internet Explorer because it was the only browser ActiveX plug-ins were compatible with. By default, Web developers optimized not only banking and shopping Web sites for Internet Explorer, but all Web sites. For developers, this just seemed logical.<\/p>\n<p>The result has been a decade-long monopoly in the Korean market, where virtually all Korean Web sites are optimized for Internet Explorer. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the 1990s, Korea developed its own encryption technology, SEED, with the aim of securing e-commerce. Users must supply a digital certificate, protected by a personal password, for any online transaction in order to prove their identity. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4109\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50,47],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-microsoft","tag-monopolistic-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}