I can almost hear the politicians now: Oh please, Jimmy, please! Please don't enable SSL! But seriously, what he's suggesting is the truth. Any website that th

I can almost hear the politicians now: Oh please, Jimmy, please! Please don't enable SSL! But seriously, what he's suggesting is the truth. Any website that thinks it might be seen as slightly toxic for its users will move to SSL if it wants to stay in use. The problem with this play is that turning on SSL for all Wikipedia users would be really very expensive. Encryption costs a lot of CPU cycles and entropy.