Secure editing? - Wikimedia-SF

30 Jun 2008

I work a lot on open wireless networks. All of my important traffic is 
encrypted (HTTPS, IMAPS, SSH). Some unimportant stuff isn't, but if 
somebody runs off with, say, my Slashdot identity, I don't really care.

The one exception is Wikipedia. It doesn't seem to do HTTPS. Before I 
was an admin, I didn't care, but now somebody getting ahold of my 
credentials could cause a fair bit of trouble. This makes me a bit 
paranoid about using Wikipedia at all, and inclines me to stay logged 
out. So in a way, becoming an admin has made me less engaged.

The best solution I've come up with for this is setting up my own secure 
proxy and then using something like FoxyProxy to selectively route 
Wikipedia traffic to the proxy. That seems like an awful lot of 
rigamarole, though, and I'm wondering if anybody has some simpler solution.

Thanks,

William