I don't see any position from Mozilla on this yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security.policy/wnuKAhACo3E
Couldn't find anything about Google Chrome. Meanwhile, I have emailed [email protected] with a link to this discussion (hope it's not a terribly inappropriate thing to do). I'd be great to hear from WMF about their view on this. Best, Yury. Yury Bulka <[email protected]> writes: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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> > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
