Ryan Lane wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Tei <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Perhaps have a black list of countries that are know to break the
>> privacy of communications, then make https default for logued users in
>> these countries.
>> 
>> This may help because:
>> 
>>  - It only affect a subgroup of users (the ones from these countries)
>>  - It only affect a subgroup of that subgroup,  the logued users (not all)
>>  - It create a blacklist of "bad countries" where citizens are under
>> surveillance by the governement
>> 
>> This perhaps is not feasible, if theres not easy way to detect the
>> country based on the ip.
> 
> I'd definitely not support doing something like this. This would
> incredibly complicate things.

Someone came into #wikimedia-tech a few days ago and asked about something
similar to this. The idea was to use site-wide JavaScript to auto-redirect
users to https on one of the Chinese Wikipedias. I believe this was in
combination with geolocation functionality, but I'm not sure.

Do you have any thoughts on individual wikis doing this, assuming there's
local community consensus?

MZMcBride



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