I'm not in Kazakhstan and am not in directly touch with any of wikimedians there, so I don't know their position.
However, I'm not sure how much freedom they have in expressing their honest opinion about this publicly. Simply because it is always a pros-and-cons calculation to criticise your local goverment in such situations.
Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com writes:
I do not think Kazakhstan has a chapter. In the past, some Kazakh Wikimedians enjoyed close collaboration with the government (for example, the Kazakhstani Encyclopedia has been released under a free license and verbatim copied to the Kazakh Wikipedia, so that I do not expect much.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:45 PM Thomas Townsend homesec1783@gmail.com wrote:
Yury
What is the position of the Kazakhstan chapter on this?
The Turnip
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 11:36, Yury Bulka setthemfree@privacyrequired.com wrote:
I'm sure many have heard about this:
https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/kazakhstan-https-security-certificate.html
Essentially, the government in Kazakhstan started forcing citizens into installing a root TLS certificate on their devices that would allow the government to intercept, decrypt and manipulate all HTTPS traffic.
Without the centificate, it seems, citizens can't access HTTPS pages (at least on some ISPs).
I think this has serious implications for Wikipedia & Wikimedia, as not only they would be easily able to see which articles people read, but also steal login credentials, depseudonymize people and even hijack admin accounts.
Another danger is that if this effort by Kazakhstan will succeed, other governments may start doing the same.
I wonder if WMF has any position on this yet?
Best, Yury.
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