<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">the sheer amount of ppl left that have the older phones most likely are not going to Wikipedia anyway."<br><br>Why?<br></span></font><div><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"J. Hellenthal via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>To: </b>"John Adams" <jna@retina.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>, "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, December 31, 2019 5:30:58 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read<br><br>... because you should be able to verify the site you are at is actually the site you intended to be at...<br><br>Let the old crap go. Besides the sheer amount of ppl left that have the older phones most likely are not going to Wikipedia anyway.<br><br>-- <br> J. Hellenthal<br><br>The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.<br><br>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 04:05, John Adams <jna@retina.net> wrote:<br>> <br>> because no one should know what you read about or check out at wikipedia<br>> <br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>> <br>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 00:30, Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:<br>>> <br>>> 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. <br>>> <br>>> This seems like security for no valid reason.<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>