[Foundation-l] Warrantless (government) surveillance of reader activity. Was: Release of squid log data

[Anthony]

On 9/16/07, Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/16/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let us defer all talk about changing the login functionality until we have
> > SUL implemented. Let us get SUL soon and first !
>
> The functionality being discussed has already been implemented.  The
> only change would be the addition of a link to that wiki via the SSL
> interface (e.g.,
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin),
> currently known to only a few who actively care and are sufficiently
> well-informed, to a page visible to the less well-informed.
>
That would be fairly useless, as logging in to secure.wikimedia.org
doesn't log you in to en.wikipedia.org.  And if it did, it would
essentially defeat the whole purpose of logging in securely.