On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, George William Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The change must be delayed until people geographically
/ nationally denied HTTPS can log in again.
Tim's working on a patch that should make this possible:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80166/
The plan of record right now is to not make the switch til we have
that merged & tested. We may still be able to make the launch window
tomorrow - RobLa will make the final call on that.
Ideally I'd like to see the language-based blacklisting removed if the
GeoIP-based solution works.
In general, though, I'd prefer for WMF to move away from what could be
characterized as appeasement and towards actively resisting censorship
and monitoring. So I'd argue in favor of a deadline for this approach,
and alignment of resources and alliances to take active measures
against censorship and monitoring.
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation