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Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read
From: Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:11:24 -0900
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 6:12 AM Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us> wrote:
On 12/31/19 12:50 AM, Ryan Hamel wrote: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.Because poor people anywhere on earth that might not have access to the newer technology don't deserve access to Wikipedia, right? Gotta make sure information is only accessible to those with means to keep "lesser" people out.
This. I visited a rural school in South Africa around 2008. For many things - such as using their cellphone provider's billing infrastructure to pay for third-party services via SMS - a switch to TLS 1.2 only would probably have no impact. But for educational purposes, their reliance on Wikipedia was dramatic - and they could *only* get to it from outdated phones that had been donated, scavenged, or cobbled together from parts. In the intervening years, the disposable-electronics culture has probably been a great boon to them, bringing better and more tech - but much of it is probably still pre Android 4.4.2 But perhaps Wikipedia's decision is based on actual data. I'd love to see percentages of their negotiated TLS ciphers, per country and per client type. Back in 2015, you could see them as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10194258 ... but I'm not sure where the equivalent data would be in the new Grafana data: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/?orgId=1 Royce
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- RE: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Keith Medcalf (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Seth Mattinen (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read DaKnOb (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read joel jaeggli (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Nick Hilliard (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Seth Mattinen (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Job Snijders (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read joel jaeggli (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Royce Williams (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read John Von Essen (Dec 31)
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- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 31)
- RE: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Keith Medcalf (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Mike Hammett (Dec 31)
- Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read Peter Beckman (Dec 31)
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