Re: Wikipedia goes https

And one last link to this link on this thread, 

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/03/native-https-support-enabled-for-all-wikimedia-foundation-wikis/ 

Talks about why there new look https://*.wikipedia.org/ urls are better than the secure.wikimedia.org ones I liked below. 

And yeah, they are working with the HTTPS-everywhere folks to make sure the new look URLs are supported sometime soon. 

Mischa
On 4 Oct 2011, at 11:50, Mischa Tuffield wrote:

> 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/
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
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