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https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Johan Jönsson <[email protected]> wrote: > 2015-03-10 13:26 GMT+01:00 Comet styles <[email protected]>: > > > for an organization taking on the NSA for "spying"..why are we using > > https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and > > running with our tail between our legs? > > > > (For non-technical readers: the HTTP protocol is the normal way to send > around information on the web. HTTPS is the secure way of sending said > information, adding encryption among other things, to avoid eavesdropping.) > > HTTP traffic can easily be tracked by people sharing the same network, by > your Internet service provider and so on. If one cares about privacy, HTTPS > is always important. It's worth noting that the NSA is not the only > government agency in the world. I'd be even more worried about a number of > countries where there would be little chance to fight the intruding party > in the courtroom. > > Side note: you could probably track most HTTPS traffic to Wikipedia as > well, even if you're not the NSA. Normally you would see that the user has > accessed Wikipedia, but not which article. A way around that would be to > let a spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) track the byte > size of Wikipedia articles, which should be individual enough as soon as > images are involved and compare it to the size of the page the user just > accessed. If two articles happen to be of exactly the same size, compare > with incoming and outgoing wiki links and see if the user accessed any page > linking to or linked from one the articles to determine which one. But it > would at least take some sort of effort, and wouldn't be perfect. > > //Johan Jönsson > -- > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
