That's great! Pending for translation.
2015-03-10 10:21 GMT-06:00 Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com>: > There's a relevant research project outlined on Meta, about HTTPS: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy > > Here's the "nutshell" description: > > "Since we started switching to HTTPS and an increasing portion of inbound > traffic happens over SSL, Wikimedia sites stopped advertising themselves as > sources of referred traffic to external sites. While this is a literal > implication of HTTPS, it means that Wikimedia's impact on traffic directed > to other sites is becoming largely invisible: *is Wikimedia turning into a > large source of dark traffic?* I review a use case (traffic directed to > CrossRef) and discuss how other top web properties deal with this issue by > adopting a so-called "Referrer Policy"." > > I don't know anything about this beyond what I've read on Meta, but I think > it offers some useful background for this discussion. > > Pete > -- > Pete Forsyth > [[User:Peteforsyth]] on English Wikipedia, Wikisource, Commons, etc. > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Probably a good time for everyone to know about EFF's HTTPS Everywhere: > > > > HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts > > your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more > > secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today. > > > > https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Johan Jönsson <brevlis...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > 2015-03-10 13:26 GMT+01:00 Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > for an organization taking on the NSA for "spying"..why are we using > > > > https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and > > > > running with our tail between our legs? > > > > > > > > > > (For non-technical readers: the HTTP protocol is the normal way to send > > > around information on the web. HTTPS is the secure way of sending said > > > information, adding encryption among other things, to avoid > > eavesdropping.) > > > > > > HTTP traffic can easily be tracked by people sharing the same network, > by > > > your Internet service provider and so on. If one cares about privacy, > > HTTPS > > > is always important. It's worth noting that the NSA is not the only > > > government agency in the world. I'd be even more worried about a number > > of > > > countries where there would be little chance to fight the intruding > party > > > in the courtroom. > > > > > > Side note: you could probably track most HTTPS traffic to Wikipedia as > > > well, even if you're not the NSA. Normally you would see that the user > > has > > > accessed Wikipedia, but not which article. A way around that would be > to > > > let a spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) track the > byte > > > size of Wikipedia articles, which should be individual enough as soon > as > > > images are involved and compare it to the size of the page the user > just > > > accessed. If two articles happen to be of exactly the same size, > compare > > > with incoming and outgoing wiki links and see if the user accessed any > > page > > > linking to or linked from one the articles to determine which one. But > it > > > would at least take some sort of effort, and wouldn't be perfect. > > > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- *Iván Martínez* *Wikimanía 2015 Chief CoordinatorUser:ProtoplasmaKid @protoplasmakidhttp://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org <http://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org>* Hemos creado la más grande colección de conocimiento compartido. 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