On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, George William Herbert > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The change must be delayed until people geographically / nationally > denied HTTPS can log in again. > > Tim's working on a patch that should make this possible: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80166/ > > The plan of record right now is to not make the switch til we have > that merged & tested. We may still be able to make the launch window > tomorrow - RobLa will make the final call on that. > > Ideally I'd like to see the language-based blacklisting removed if the > GeoIP-based solution works. Excellent. Thank you. > In general, though, I'd prefer for WMF to move away from what could be > characterized as appeasement and towards actively resisting censorship > and monitoring. So I'd argue in favor of a deadline for this approach, > and alignment of resources and alliances to take active measures > against censorship and monitoring. > Yes; in the medium term (past the next few days / week) the direction here is clearly good from a user privacy / censorship and monitoring point of view. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
