'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 mirrors which does not use HTTPS by default. -- revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 6. 26. 오전 6:27에 "Deryck Chan" <[email protected]>님이 작성: > 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) is only sealing that impression. > > Coincidentally with the switch to https-only, China has blocked the > Chinese Wikipedia. > > 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 than we gain in security. > > "Not our fault" is not good enough when an encyclopedia loses a small but > significant proportion of its readership, not out of the readers' voluntary > choice. > > Deryck > > P.S. Nemo: FYI the case in my mind is in the UK, not HK or Mainland China. > > On 25 June 2015 at 14:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Deryck Chan, 25/06/2015 12:38: >> >>> Is there a compromise that can be sought? >>> >> >> First comes understanding. It would be very nice to have a map of such >> issues; then WMHK could mail all the schools etc. explaining them why >> encryption is important and why they should not break it, for the kids' >> security's sake. >> Then, once we know who can't be convinced/fixed and why, it will be >> easier to seek alternatives. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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