On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
One group of users that is always being forgotten in
this discussion is
the group who use Wikipedia over really crappy connections that aren't
censoring them. These users will have a hard time using an SSL
connection due to the added resources/round trips and have a legitimate
non-China/NSA excuse to disable HTTPS after they login (where the added
roundtrips are probably worthwhile to keep their username/password
safe).
Indeed, and in those case they just leave their HTTPS preference turned off
(since the default is off anyway).
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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