Yury What is the position of the Kazakhstan chapter on this?
The Turnip On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 11:36, Yury Bulka <setthemf...@privacyrequired.com> wrote: > > I'm sure many have heard about this: > https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/kazakhstan-https-security-certificate.html > > Essentially, the government in Kazakhstan started forcing citizens into > installing a root TLS certificate on their devices that would allow the > government to intercept, decrypt and manipulate all HTTPS traffic. > > Without the centificate, it seems, citizens can't access HTTPS pages (at > least on some ISPs). > > I think this has serious implications for Wikipedia & Wikimedia, as not > only they would be easily able to see which articles people read, but > also steal login credentials, depseudonymize people and even hijack > admin accounts. > > Another danger is that if this effort by Kazakhstan will succeed, other > governments may start doing the same. > > I wonder if WMF has any position on this yet? > > Best, > Yury. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
