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The technical solution can not solve all problems, wikimedia plans to activate HTTPS per default for all users: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-http

by sitic 12y ago

The technical solution can not solve all problems, wikimedia plans to activate HTTPS per default for all users: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-... One of the problems is that certain countries block HTTPS (e.g. China), should wikimedia effectively block all chinese users from free knowledge that wikimedia aims to provide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia

Dorian-Marie 12y ago
Thanks for the link, very interesting that it's a technical limitation for them to not enable HTTPS. About china, maybe only the IPs from china can use HTTP, maybe only zh.wikipedia.org can use HTTP, ... I think legal solutions are just temporary fixes, technical ones fix the root of the problem in a more generic way.