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Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read
From: Ryan Hamel <ryan () rkhtech org>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:50:55 -0800
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 <mureninc () gmail com> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes < mattlists () 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.
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- Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 30)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Quan Zhou (Dec 30)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 30)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Matt Hoppes (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Ryan Hamel (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Antonios Chariton (Dec 31)
- RE: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Keith Medcalf (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Seth Mattinen (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read DaKnOb (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read joel jaeggli (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Nick Hilliard (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Seth Mattinen (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Job Snijders (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 30)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Quan Zhou (Dec 30)