Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-10 Thread Tim Starling
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Lane  wrote:
>> A very small minority of users don't have HTTPS
>> support, or their computers are so old that it makes the site unusably
>> slow. That's a *very* small percentage of users, though.

There's also the small issue of a billion people in China who can
access our site by HTTP but not HTTPS.

Making *.wikipedia.org unconditionally redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
would have the effect of making it completely impossible for them to
read anything, whereas currently, it is only difficult to read
information on certain politically-sensitive topics.

HTTPS would be useful for reducing government snooping in developed
countries like the UK and Australia. But it's not a solution for China
(because HTTPS is equivalent to null routing) or the US (because they
can use court orders to accomplish whatever they want to achieve on
the server side).

-- Tim Starling


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-08 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Brad Jorsch  wrote:

> "Hard-enabled", on the other hand, means that anyone fetching the http
> URL would be redirected to the corresponding https URL.[2] If this
> were somehow done now, then people in China would not be able to read
> Wikipedia at all because the http links would just redirect to https
> and then China's firewall would block the https request. The blog post
> mentioned earlier in this thread hopes that that would make China back
> down and unblock https to Wikipedia.


That might not even work, if they decide to return the contents of the
(proxied) https page rather than the redirect.

Bleh, that's depressing.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-08 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Anthony  wrote:
>
> What is this "hard-enabled" and "soft-enabled"?

I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but...

I believe that "soft-enabled" means that https was set as the protocol
in the canonical URLs for uzwiki. So search engines should start
linking to the https URLs, and non-relative links generated by
MediaWiki on WMF wikis would link to https rather than http. And,
eventually, the links that people post to other places would start to
be more often https too. But a visitor may still go to the http URL if
they want to.

Bug 43466[1] seems relevant, and links to other discussion.

"Hard-enabled", on the other hand, means that anyone fetching the http
URL would be redirected to the corresponding https URL.[2] If this
were somehow done now, then people in China would not be able to read
Wikipedia at all because the http links would just redirect to https
and then China's firewall would block the https request. The blog post
mentioned earlier in this thread hopes that that would make China back
down and unblock https to Wikipedia.

 [1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43466
 [2]: With an HTTP 301 redirect, most likely.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-08 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Matthew Roth  wrote:

> We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
> will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
> what format.
>
> This is the content of our response:
>
> "The Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t hold any readers of our projects in any
> less regard than others. Our mission is to bring the knowledge contained in
> the Wikimedia projects to everyone on the planet. There is no strategic
> consideration around how we can make one or another language project more
> accessible or readable in one part of the world or another. We do not have
> control over how a national government operates its censorship system. We
> also do not work with any national censorship system to limit access to
> project knowledge in any way.
>
> It is worth noting the blog post makes some incorrect assumptions about
> Wikimedia culture - including incorrect titling of some Wikimedia
> Foundation staff (e.g. Sue Gardner is the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia -- Wikipedia
> is written by tens of thousands of volunteers and has no director and no
> hierarchy of editors). There is also an incorrect assertion that Jimmy
> Wales has a direct role in working with our staff in making changes to core
> infrastructure. Of course Jimmy plays a role in the conversation, but he is
> participating in the conversation along with anyone else from the volunteer
> editor community.
>
> On the larger topic, the implementation of HTTPS by default across all
> Wikimedia sites for all readers and users is non-trivial, and a
> conversation is ongoing within the Wikimedia Foundation and within the
> community about how we might make this possible. We do have plans to
> eventually enable HTTPS as the default, but it's difficult and we're taking
> steps toward this goal over time.
>
> Our first step is to force HTTPS for logged-in users. The next step will be
> to expand our SSL cluster and to do some testing on a wiki-by-wiki basis
> with anonymous HTTPS. At some point later we'll attempt to enable HTTPS for
> anons on all projects. Then we'll look at enabling HSTS, so that browsers
> know they should always use HTTPS to access our sites.
>

> We've only had proper native HTTPS for about a year and a half. We
> attempted to force HTTPS by default for logged-in users last month and
> rolled it back. We'll be attempting this again soon. So, it's something
> we're actively working on. We've also hard-enabled HTTPS on all of our
> private wikis and have soft-enabled HTTPS on a single wiki (Uzbek
> Wikipedia), when it was requested by the volunteer editor community there."
>
>
>
Great response, which makes it clear that there is no politically biased
motives here, just techinical issues. I hope they will be publishing it in
some sort of decent form, though unfortunately the damage is generally
never restored, it might go a long way.

On a tiny side note: Is calling non logged in users on official
communications a good idea? I've always found it to be sounding quite
denigrating.






>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:50 AM, shi zhao  wrote:
>
> > https://upload.wikimedia.org also blocked
> > Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
> > My blog: http://shizhao.org
> > twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao
> >
> > [[zh:User:Shizhao]]
> >
> >
> > 2013/6/7 Benjamin Chen :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection
> to
> > all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our
> IPs.
> > I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other
> > projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they
> > may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP).
> > >
> > > Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the
> block
> > has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last
> for
> > long.
> > >
> > > Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and
> (their)
> > opinions and suggestions for the Foundation.
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
> > >
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-08 Thread Anthony
What is this "hard-enabled" and "soft-enabled"?  If the Chinese volunteer
editor community requests that HTTPS be "soft-enabled" for them, and you do
so, does that solve anything?

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Roth  wrote:

> We've also hard-enabled HTTPS on all of our
> private wikis and have soft-enabled HTTPS on a single wiki (Uzbek
> Wikipedia), when it was requested by the volunteer editor community there."
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-08 Thread Anthony
This response seems to miss the fact that, in this particular case,
censorship is being accomplished through eavesdropping.


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Matthew Roth  wrote:

> Hi all,
> I wanted to share a clarifying email from Ryan Lane in WMF Ops. He's
> working through the challenges of HTTPS from the Foundation's end.
>
> Please see below for more details:
>
> -Matthew
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Lane  wrote:
>
> > How does it impact people? Short answer: it shouldn't. Long answer: It
> may
> > make the site slightly slower due to increased network latency, and it is
> > slightly more computationally expensive, which may make the site slower
> on
> > computers that are underpowered.
> >
> > How does it impact the WMF? It depends. For enabling it for logged-in
> > users, or for those that use HTTPS-anywhere? It doesn't affect us,
> because
> > that's the state we're in right now. For making HTTPS the default for
> > anonymous users? We need to change how our infrastructure works. We may
> > need to buy additional hardware. We definitely need to do some
> engineering
> > work.
> >
> > How does it impact the government's ability to apply censorship? Short
> > answer: it doesn't. It affects their ability to eavesdrop on people. Long
> > answer: It depends on how sophisticated the government's censorship
> program
> > is. In some countries the government's censorship program can be totally
> > bypassed using HTTPS. China's program is very sophisticated. The best
> HTTPS
> > is going to help the Chinese is to give them a reasonable amount of
> > protection against eavesdropping. It's still possible for China to
> > eavesdrop, even when users are using HTTPS, if China has subverted any of
> > the Certificate Authorities trusted by our browsers.
> >
> > Are there negative sides of each choice? Yes. Not providing HTTPS means
> > that users will always be subject to eavesdropping, which in very
> > authoritative countries could mean they are imprisoned or killed for
> > reading or editing Wikipedia, depending on what they are reading or
> > editing. Realistically not making HTTPS the default is similar to not
> > providing it for all intents and purposes. Search engines will bring
> people
> > to the HTTP version of the site, not the HTTPS version so the vast
> majority
> > of users will still be able to be eavesdropped on. Making HTTPS the
> default
> > also has negatives. A very small minority of users don't have HTTPS
> > support, or their computers are so old that it makes the site unusably
> > slow. That's a *very* small percentage of users, though. Additionally, it
> > makes the site slower for everyone, which may cause a decrease in viewers
> > and/or editors.
> >
> > This is likely the most non-technical way I can explain things. I hope it
> > helps!
> >
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Chen 
> wrote:
>
> > On 8 Jun, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Matthew Roth  wrote:
> >
> > > We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said
> they
> > > will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or
> > in
> > > what format.
> >
> > Great. That's really fast response.
> >
> > On the issue itself, we haven't seen any large scale blocks for years
> > (around the time since last time Jimbo visited some Chinese official more
> > than 4 or 5 years ago I think).
> >
> > The secure.wikimedia domain was blocked long ago, but they waited till
> now
> > to block HTTPS, after 3 years? (I can't remember when it was enabled). I
> > wonder how long it took for them to realise.
> >
> > It is suggested that this could be a long term block similar to how
> > secure.wikimedia was blocked - for HTTPS they have no control over
> content,
> > so they are simply blocking it all. For HTTP they are still performing
> deep
> > package inspection (means content censoring), so since they can filter
> what
> > the Chinese people can see, it's likely that they'll leave HTTP alone.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Roth
Hi all,
I wanted to share a clarifying email from Ryan Lane in WMF Ops. He's
working through the challenges of HTTPS from the Foundation's end.

Please see below for more details:

-Matthew

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Lane  wrote:

> How does it impact people? Short answer: it shouldn't. Long answer: It may
> make the site slightly slower due to increased network latency, and it is
> slightly more computationally expensive, which may make the site slower on
> computers that are underpowered.
>
> How does it impact the WMF? It depends. For enabling it for logged-in
> users, or for those that use HTTPS-anywhere? It doesn't affect us, because
> that's the state we're in right now. For making HTTPS the default for
> anonymous users? We need to change how our infrastructure works. We may
> need to buy additional hardware. We definitely need to do some engineering
> work.
>
> How does it impact the government's ability to apply censorship? Short
> answer: it doesn't. It affects their ability to eavesdrop on people. Long
> answer: It depends on how sophisticated the government's censorship program
> is. In some countries the government's censorship program can be totally
> bypassed using HTTPS. China's program is very sophisticated. The best HTTPS
> is going to help the Chinese is to give them a reasonable amount of
> protection against eavesdropping. It's still possible for China to
> eavesdrop, even when users are using HTTPS, if China has subverted any of
> the Certificate Authorities trusted by our browsers.
>
> Are there negative sides of each choice? Yes. Not providing HTTPS means
> that users will always be subject to eavesdropping, which in very
> authoritative countries could mean they are imprisoned or killed for
> reading or editing Wikipedia, depending on what they are reading or
> editing. Realistically not making HTTPS the default is similar to not
> providing it for all intents and purposes. Search engines will bring people
> to the HTTP version of the site, not the HTTPS version so the vast majority
> of users will still be able to be eavesdropped on. Making HTTPS the default
> also has negatives. A very small minority of users don't have HTTPS
> support, or their computers are so old that it makes the site unusably
> slow. That's a *very* small percentage of users, though. Additionally, it
> makes the site slower for everyone, which may cause a decrease in viewers
> and/or editors.
>
> This is likely the most non-technical way I can explain things. I hope it
> helps!
>


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Benjamin Chen  wrote:

> On 8 Jun, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Matthew Roth  wrote:
>
> > We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
> > will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or
> in
> > what format.
>
> Great. That's really fast response.
>
> On the issue itself, we haven't seen any large scale blocks for years
> (around the time since last time Jimbo visited some Chinese official more
> than 4 or 5 years ago I think).
>
> The secure.wikimedia domain was blocked long ago, but they waited till now
> to block HTTPS, after 3 years? (I can't remember when it was enabled). I
> wonder how long it took for them to realise.
>
> It is suggested that this could be a long term block similar to how
> secure.wikimedia was blocked - for HTTPS they have no control over content,
> so they are simply blocking it all. For HTTP they are still performing deep
> package inspection (means content censoring), so since they can filter what
> the Chinese people can see, it's likely that they'll leave HTTP alone.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread Benjamin Chen
On 8 Jun, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Matthew Roth  wrote:

> We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
> will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
> what format.

Great. That's really fast response.

On the issue itself, we haven't seen any large scale blocks for years (around 
the time since last time Jimbo visited some Chinese official more than 4 or 5 
years ago I think).

The secure.wikimedia domain was blocked long ago, but they waited till now to 
block HTTPS, after 3 years? (I can't remember when it was enabled). I wonder 
how long it took for them to realise.

It is suggested that this could be a long term block similar to how 
secure.wikimedia was blocked - for HTTPS they have no control over content, so 
they are simply blocking it all. For HTTP they are still performing deep 
package inspection (means content censoring), so since they can filter what the 
Chinese people can see, it's likely that they'll leave HTTP alone.


Regards,

Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread Leslie Carr
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Benjamin Chen  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to all 
> language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. I was 
> also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other projects, 
> such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they may still be 
> subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP).
>
> Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block has 
> been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for long.
>
> Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their) 
> opinions and suggestions for the Foundation.
>
> https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends
>
> Regards,
>

Major technical issues.  If we switched IPs, we'd quickly run out of
IPs as china would quickly switch which IP they were blocking.  Also
manually resolving to certain IPs is not going to be helpful as we
migrate services around.

Jimmy Wales does not run Wikimedia and especially not our tech department.
" It might simply be that Wikipedia staff hold Chinese readers in less
regard to English ones and did not even discuss this change internally
in the first place."

That is ridiculous!

There have been many discussions on making https default (or at least
for login).  It's not as easy as throwing a switch --  ssl termination
is done on another layer of our infrastructure and we can't yet handle
100% ssl traffic.

VPNs are still a great solution for those stuck behind the great
firewall, TOR, IPv6, SSH tunnelling are also solutions --
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2405036 is an interesting article.

Leslie


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Roth
We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
what format.

This is the content of our response:

"The Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t hold any readers of our projects in any
less regard than others. Our mission is to bring the knowledge contained in
the Wikimedia projects to everyone on the planet. There is no strategic
consideration around how we can make one or another language project more
accessible or readable in one part of the world or another. We do not have
control over how a national government operates its censorship system. We
also do not work with any national censorship system to limit access to
project knowledge in any way.

It is worth noting the blog post makes some incorrect assumptions about
Wikimedia culture - including incorrect titling of some Wikimedia
Foundation staff (e.g. Sue Gardner is the Executive Director of the
Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia -- Wikipedia
is written by tens of thousands of volunteers and has no director and no
hierarchy of editors). There is also an incorrect assertion that Jimmy
Wales has a direct role in working with our staff in making changes to core
infrastructure. Of course Jimmy plays a role in the conversation, but he is
participating in the conversation along with anyone else from the volunteer
editor community.

On the larger topic, the implementation of HTTPS by default across all
Wikimedia sites for all readers and users is non-trivial, and a
conversation is ongoing within the Wikimedia Foundation and within the
community about how we might make this possible. We do have plans to
eventually enable HTTPS as the default, but it's difficult and we're taking
steps toward this goal over time.

Our first step is to force HTTPS for logged-in users. The next step will be
to expand our SSL cluster and to do some testing on a wiki-by-wiki basis
with anonymous HTTPS. At some point later we'll attempt to enable HTTPS for
anons on all projects. Then we'll look at enabling HSTS, so that browsers
know they should always use HTTPS to access our sites.

We've only had proper native HTTPS for about a year and a half. We
attempted to force HTTPS by default for logged-in users last month and
rolled it back. We'll be attempting this again soon. So, it's something
we're actively working on. We've also hard-enabled HTTPS on all of our
private wikis and have soft-enabled HTTPS on a single wiki (Uzbek
Wikipedia), when it was requested by the volunteer editor community there."





On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:50 AM, shi zhao  wrote:

> https://upload.wikimedia.org also blocked
> Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
> My blog: http://shizhao.org
> twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao
>
> [[zh:User:Shizhao]]
>
>
> 2013/6/7 Benjamin Chen :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to
> all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs.
> I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other
> projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they
> may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP).
> >
> > Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block
> has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for
> long.
> >
> > Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their)
> opinions and suggestions for the Foundation.
> >
> >
> https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread shi zhao
https://upload.wikimedia.org also blocked
Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
My blog: http://shizhao.org
twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao

[[zh:User:Shizhao]]


2013/6/7 Benjamin Chen :
> Hi,
>
> Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to all 
> language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. I was 
> also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other projects, 
> such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they may still be 
> subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP).
>
> Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block has 
> been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for long.
>
> Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their) 
> opinions and suggestions for the Foundation.
>
> https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends
>
> Regards,
>
> Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Blocking of HTTPS connection by China

2013-06-07 Thread John
Wow, what a complete mis-understanding and misrepresenting of facts my that
blog author

On Friday, June 7, 2013, Benjamin Chen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to
> all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs.
> I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other
> projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they
> may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP).
>
> Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block
> has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for
> long.
>
> Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their)
> opinions and suggestions for the Foundation.
>
>
> https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends
>
> Regards,
>
> Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
>
>
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