<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Ignoring the obvious reasons why TLS is needed and HTTP should not be used, I guess people who want an HTTP version of Wikipedia that is read-only and knowingly insecure, censorable, modifiable, etc. can donate a few million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation, before the tax year is over, for the engineers, infrastructure, and everything, and write a special note, and maybe Wikipedia may consider this.. Worst case, you just funded a secure encyclopedia and helped it grow in 2020 and years to come.. :)<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Let’s see those receipts coming!</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Dec 2019, at 09:50, Ryan Hamel <<a href="mailto:ryan@rkhtech.org" class="">ryan@rkhtech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Ryan</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:41 AM Constantine A. Murenin <<a href="mailto:mureninc@gmail.com" class="">mureninc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes <<a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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 class="">
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This seems like security for no valid reason. </blockquote></div><br clear="all" class=""></div>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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">C.<br class=""></div></div>
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