Ignoring the obvious reasons why TLS is needed and HTTP should not be used, I guess people who want an HTTP version of Wikipedia that is read-only and knowingly insecure, censorable, modifiable, etc. can donate a few million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation, before the tax year is over, for the engineers, infrastructure, and everything, and write a special note, and maybe Wikipedia may consider this.. Worst case, you just funded a secure encyclopedia and helped it grow in 2020 and years to come.. :)
Let’s see those receipts coming! > On 31 Dec 2019, at 09:50, Ryan Hamel <r...@rkhtech.org> wrote: > > Just let the old platforms ride off into the sunset as originally planned > like the SSL implementations in older JRE installs, XP, etc. You shouldn't be > holding onto the past. > > Ryan > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:41 AM Constantine A. Murenin <muren...@gmail.com > <mailto:muren...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes <mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net > <mailto:mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote: > Why do I need Wikipedia SSLed? I know the argument. But if it doesn’t work > why not either let it fall back to 1.0 or to HTTP. > > This seems like security for no valid reason. > > Exactly. I used the wording from their own page; but I think it's actually > misleading. They're actually going out of their way to prevent users of "old > Android smartphones" from accessing Wikipedia; if they did nothing, everyone > would still be able to read happily over HTTP. > > C.
