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Japan is bad, but South Korea was the stuff of nightmares when I lived there with a Mac. So awful you had no choice but to laugh.

IE6, ActiveX controls, and mandatory keyloggers for online banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_So...

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I had no idea! We used to have mandatory keyloggers for online banking in Brazil not too long ago, but this is gone now.

WTF?! What's the reasoning behind mandatory keyloggers for online banking?

"there are so many fraudsters and scammers around, so we need our own good keylogger on your machine"?

it got so bad, even their _free online games_ needed to authenticate using a bespoke popup where you clicked in your pin number

towards the end it shuffled the digits after each click

truly cat and mouse

Basically, yes. I believe the logic was "our keylogger will hook into the OS before any malicious keylogger does so it can prevent those bad guys getting your keystrokes"

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