Some don't have the fiscal or logistical ability to do better.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Hamel" <r...@rkhtech.org> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <muren...@gmail.com> Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 2:50:55 AM Subject: Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read 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 < muren...@gmail.com > wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net > wrote: <blockquote> 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. </blockquote>
