Like I've said before, the NSA spying on what users are reading is still
the least of our concerns. We should focus on making sure passwords aren't
sent over plaintext before attempting to evade a government-run
international spy network.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 07/31/2013 03:23 PM, Risker wrote:
Just one question from a relatively non-technical
person: What falls off
the map if everything is done using SSL? Is this the protocol that would
make it essentially impossible to read/edit Wikipedia using a normal
internet connection from China?
Risker
Good question. I'm not aware of the current status, but Tim Starling
said SSL connections to Wikipedia have been blocked in China
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47832#c16).
Matt Flaschen
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