[Foundation-l] Voting

[Sebastian Moleski]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The problem is that SPI are using a certificate from someone who isn't
> Verisign (good) but who appear to be at best semi-competent weirdos
> (bad).
>

Indeed. It's also utterly inappropriate for us to suggest that users should
ignore or circumvent security warnings when it comes to voting at Wikimedia.
It took years of "conditioning" to make sure users of web browsers know what
to look for (e.g. the lock symbol, the green background-color for secure
URLs) when entering personal or private information. We have to make sure we
don't counteract that by telling them now to just ignore the warnings.

Sebastian