My educational institution does this, but access to Wikimedia sites is unaffected. If they
can't set up their system to make it work, I can see exactly where liability is in
this case.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: "billinghurst" <billinghurstwiki(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 25/06/2015 12:55
To: "Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects"
<wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] https-only is reducing accessibility
I think that it is somewhat inaccurate to say that Wikimedia is at fault here, it seems
that those schools and companies bear the responsibilities for their actions and snooping.
They are responsible for the blocking and that makes them responsible for their
solutions.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:38 PM Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)wikimedia.hk> wrote:
Hi ambassadors,
Recently Wikimedia sites switched to https-only for privacy reasons, and the https
certificate has been updated to prevent access altogether where a secure connection
couldn't be established.
This is a problem because some schools and companies deliberately eavesdrop https for
monitoring purposes by inserting an in-house https certificate. Wikimedia's switch to
https-only is preventing people from such networks from even *reading* Wikipedia.
Is there a compromise that can be sought?
Deryck
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