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abrahamsen on Aug 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oracle knew about critical Java flaws since April

Danes. It is used by the government electronic id system (nemid), and is the only way to e.g. make corrections to your tax returns (they are by default filled by the tax authority). Most government and many private (e.g. banks) institutions use it.

https://www.nemid.nu/om_nemid/about_nemid/

diminoten on Aug 30, 2012 [–]

Then enable it for those sites. Defaulting to enabled seems like overkill.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure my browser asks me every time it wants to run an applet, so I think that as current behavior is fine.

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