:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme
than this
Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself,
but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is
vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from
snoopers like the NSA. I don't have much to do with this change, and I
consider it beneficial, but does it cause any problems?
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aprils fool?
On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can you give us some justification for this
change? It's not like when
downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data...
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org
<javascript:;>> wrote:
> We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday),
redirecting
plain
http access to https.
A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for
those
who may have restricted https access.
Ariel Glenn
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