On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, on a side note, Facebook *just* made HTTPS the default: > > https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/secure-browsing-by-default/10151590414803920 >
As an FYI - facebook, a site where every person is logged in and possibly seeing non-public content is very different than Wikimedia. > *-- * > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > As for government-run spy networks, we don't know what their full >> > capabilities are. But there are plenty of benefits to rolling out SSL >> > regardless, even just for privacy from the person at the other end of >> > the coffee shop. Firesheep, anyone? >> > >> > Matt Flaschen >> >> I agree that there's lots of benefits to ssl, and its something that >> we really should do. I just think we should be clear on our threat >> model, and not mislead people into thinking it will protect them from >> an entity with the resources of a state. SSL is too often banded about >> as being something which will totally prevent government type spying. >> >> --bawolff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
