I said there is a little benefit for most of users, of course there would be some who could find it usefull, however that's no reason to redirect all users. I use wikipedia a lot, and I don't care if someone see which pages I open. If someone does care, they should switch to https themselves.
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 April 2012 12:23, Svip <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1 April 2012 12:06, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 > >> Also, this article was written on 1 April and is far beyond any >> monitoring scheme ever suggested in the Western World. And I am sure >> we would have heard about it being mentioned up until this point, if >> it was real. > > > It would be nice, but if it's a prank then (a) lots of other > newspapers are in on it (b) ORG flagged the programme described > several weeks in advance: > > http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Capabilities_Development_Programme > http://www.openrightsgroup.org/issues/ccdp > > So no, it's in no way a joke. This is absolutely real. > > >> So I would take that article with a grain of salt. Particularly the >> statement about 'real time'. That's not even feasible. > > > That a desired monitoring regime would require a violation of physics > has *never* stopped a legislative push for such. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
