Hi All, Excuse the top-post! As far as I am aware wikipedia has been doing https for a long time (see below). I have been using this awesome HTTPS-Everywhere plugin for a while now, and other people should too :) https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere And my wikipedia urls have been redirecting to urls of the below form, fwiw: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nature_%28journal%29 Mischa On 3 Oct 2011, at 19:58, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > On 3 October 2011 20:49, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote: >> An interesting article. >> >> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_enables_https_for_privacy_in_browsing.php >> >> Another reason is certainly to remove Firesheep type attacks, so that people who >> are editing can't be faked. > > nice! > > Perhaps the ISP snooping is a bigger threat than firesheep? > >> >> (And of course the real reason is preparation to the implementation of WebID, but shhh...) >> >> >> Henry >> >> Social Web Architect >> http://bblfish.net/ >> >> > ___________________________________ Mischa Tuffield PhD Email: mischa.tuffield@garlik.com Homepage - http://mmt.me.uk/ +44(0)208 439 8200 http://www.garlik.com/ Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11 Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD
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