But won't the people in Iran or China would be
able to access the Wikimedia
sites through http instead of https? And what about accessing through https
within Wikipedia Zero? Is cost-free access available through https?
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 June 2015 at 05:21, Comet styles
<cometstyles(a)gmail.com> wrote:
China and Iran blocks https (and WMF thinks https
is more secure than
http when it can be EASILY blocked lol)
China is currently blocking HTTP and has done so quite frequently. The
ability to block is largely unrelated to security.
so people in these countries
used wikipedia on http, so some here think that these countries are
spying on them by forcing them to use http, but that https block in
this countries was NOT to target wikipedia, it was to target social
networking sites and american based email sites like yahoo and gmail
etc..but now by moving to HTTPS, we have now become a target for those
countries......well done..
That doesn't make sense. HTTPs doesn't hide the domain. The country can
still tell that someone is visiting wikipedia rather than say facebook.
What becomes more difficult is telling what a person is viewing on
wikipedia.
and to add to that, people who used
wikipedia in those countries to find the "truth" about whats happening
in their country and other regions can no longer do so since its
blocked..Well Done again WMF..
Well actually no they couldn't if they had a government with active
blocking measures. With HTTP traffic governments and ISPs can (and did)
block individual pages that they don't like.
Someone has to be fired for this.
That would seem to be something of an over reaction even if you disagree
with the decision.
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geni
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