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
From: billinghurst
Sent: ‎25/‎06/‎2015 12:55
To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects
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@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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