Tim Starling wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 5/15/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
So that brought me to my current working idea, which is just a vmware player virtual machine [*] which hosts a Chinese Wikipedia mirror on https.
Could be useful - then again, aggressively pushing SSL as a method to circumvent censorship will likely lead to the authorities taking a closer look at methods to block it.
If there is indeed a shortage of Chinese mirrors, generating a fresh static HTML dump + free images and advertising it a bit would probably lead to hundreds of copies within weeks.
HTTPS does not protect anonymity for editors. Neither does Tor. Low-latency encryption methods suffer a common flaw: an attacker can correlate timestamps and message lengths with the size and posting time of an edit. With ordinary HTTPS you can also correlate the destination address. You could almost say that encryption is useless for sending data which will be public 200ms after it arrives.
Now, if there was a way to silently lock the article and delay the database update/timestamping for a few seconds...