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

[daknob.mac at gmail.com (Antonios Chariton)]

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.. :)

Letâ??s see those receipts coming!

> On 31 Dec 2019, at 09:50, Ryan Hamel <ryan at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:mureninc at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 02:29, Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net <mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote:
> Why do I need Wikipedia SSLed?  I know the argument. But if it doesnâ??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.

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