Just about 10 days to release of Vista, 'Open Web' has decided to file lawsuit against both KFTC (Korea Financial Telecommunications and Clearings Institute) and South Korean MOGHA (Ministry of Government and Home Affairs) within this month, making the publicity.

On the 18th, OpenWeb (http://www.openweb.or.kr), a non-profit organization dedicated for fair internet practice and accessibilities movement announced that it will sue KFTC for issuing security certificates only to those using Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and also the Korean government (MOGAHA) for its monopolistic endorsement of the Microsoft IE for its e-government services, optimized exclusively for MS IE browser users, for the grounds of intent to file civil lawsuit in coming week.

User Account Control (UAC) with ability to block out Active X Control were designed as key security features of Windows Vista. MS, adding restriction to its own designed Active X Control technology to new Vista OS, only reveals its realization of obvious flaws within its own software industry experts point out.

Nevertheless, most of Korean websites use Active X Control feature due to their 128 bit key block algorithm, a SEED system which KISA (Korea Information Security Agency) had established back in 1998. This current situation with the release of Vista OS will bring detrimental effect or a disaster for some of the online games or internet services

'Citizen's Action Network' a activists group for the public and citizen's rights criticized, "Netscape's SSL (secure sockets layer), an internet e-commerce security protocol does not require any royalties as a international standard practice (utilized by ebay, amazon), but in Korea, due to compromising Active X to its SEED security technology blocks all other possibilities"

Open Web "no more postponement" plans to file motion within 1 week
‘Citizen’s Action Network' claims that even at this juncture, the government officials are trying to protect the Active X, which is the focus of the criticism. It accused that the government has been working on partial patch for the Active X in past few months.

The Citizen's Action Network further claimed that "Korean government has taken equality issue completely out of Linux or Mac OS users, not to mention compromising the security issues. Public websites and e-government homepages are the absolute proofs."

The Open Web has considered postponing the suit until end of year when the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication) announced that it will work toward finding solution for fair SSL service for all users "But now, there is no more excuse, we will proceed with the lawsuit." it said.

Open Web will file civil lawsuit against KFTC and for the MOGAHA, it seeking a law firm to represent them. The Open Web is also considering bringing up additional charges against the KFTC to expose its possible antitrust law violations. The suit will be filed within one week.

In light of the news, "we have not heard of any suit from the Openweb organization as of yet. Our security team is working to solve the issues at hand with the Vista" a MOGAHA official said.