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Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read
From: Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:47:58 +0100
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 <ryan () 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 <mureninc () gmail com <mailto:mureninc () gmail com>> wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net <mailto: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 joel jaeggli (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)