Hi ambassadors,
Recently Wikimedia sites switched to https-only for privacy reasons, and
the https certificate has been updated to prevent access altogether where a
secure connection couldn't be established.
This is a problem because some schools and companies deliberately eavesdrop
https for
My educational institution does this, but access to Wikimedia sites is
unaffected. If they can't set up their system to make it work, I can see
exactly where liability is in this case.
Matt
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From: billinghurst billinghurstw...@gmail.com
Sent: 25/06/2015 12:55
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On 25/06/15 12:38, Deryck Chan wrote:
Hi ambassadors,
Recently Wikimedia sites switched to https-only for privacy reasons, and
the https certificate has been updated to prevent access altogether
where a secure connection couldn't be established.
This is a problem because some schools and
Understanding comes both ways. Since Snowden's whistleblowing, the tech
community has already been denounced by a significant proportion of society
as selfish nerds who value their own privacy over (communal / national)
security and order. Our switch to https-only (as opposed to
https-recommended)
On 25/06/15 23:27, Deryck Chan wrote:
We always need to balance security and accessibility. I feel that it is
unwise to remove even the option to use Wikimedia without https
encryption. With the systemic bias of Wikipedia, I feel that this switch
has cost us more in loss of breadth of readership
quote name=Deryck Chan date=2015-06-25 time=22:27:31 +0100
Understanding comes both ways. Since Snowden's whistleblowing, the tech
community has already been denounced by a significant proportion of society
as selfish nerds who value their own privacy over (communal / national)
security and
'Social Security' is important, but they shouldn't done in the way of
invading citizen's privacy.
Well, if you are happy with your every packet being analyzed, tracked,
looked over, fine. I have nothing more to say.
ps. If they — snooped people — just want to read wikipedia contents, there
are
