I do not think Kazakhstan has a chapter. In the past, some Kazakh Wikimedians enjoyed close collaboration with the government (for example, the Kazakhstani Encyclopedia has been released under a free license and verbatim copied to the Kazakh Wikipedia, so that I do not expect much.
Cheers Yaroslav On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:45 PM Thomas Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > Yury > > What is the position of the Kazakhstan chapter on this? > > The Turnip > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 11:36, Yury Bulka > <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?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: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
