Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

[Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac () gmail com>]

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.. :)

Let’s see those receipts coming!

> On 31 Dec 2019, at 09:50, Ryan Hamel <ryan () rkhtech org> 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.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:41 AM Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc () gmail com <mailto:mureninc () gmail com>> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net <mailto:mattlists () 
> rivervalleyinternet net>> wrote:
> 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. 
>
> This seems like security for no valid reason.
>
> 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.
>
> C.