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Taobao.com provides an ActiveX control for secure login. It can prevent keyloggers.

So that's what that was.....I couldn't read the Chinese, ran into that form, and then managed to switch over to a 'normal' login box through random clicking. The normal one was unsecure, but I'm impressed by the ActiveX control.

Well, an ActiveX login for online trading sites is like de facto standard in China now. The problem is every site has their own ActiveX, I myself must have over 7 ActiveX installed.

And they are IE & Win32 only. That's why every Mac & Linux user has to install a VirtualBox/VMWare for online trading.

I was hoping Google Gears could provide some sort of similar mechanism, together with CAPICOM exposure to Javascript across platform and browsers :)

Also it DOES provide a SSL login page

https://login.taobao.com/member/login.jhtml

plaintext version

http://login.taobao.com/member/login.jhtml

IIRC most of these popular sites provide a switch option between HTTPS and HTTP.

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