I'm not in Kazakhstan and am not in directly touch with any of wikimedians there, so I don't know their position.
However, I'm not sure how much freedom they have in expressing their honest opinion about this publicly. Simply because it is always a pros-and-cons calculation to criticise your local goverment in such situations. Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 <homesec1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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>
