‘Encryption Is A Human Right’: Wikipedia Aims To Lock Out NSA

[Purveyor]

Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping.

The non-profit US-based organization that manages Wikipedia, Wikimedia, has released a statement, announcing the introduction of HTTPS security protocol on its website to protect its visitors.

“[Wikipedia] believes strongly in protecting the privacy of its readers and editors. Recent leaks of the NSA’s XKeyscore program have prompted our community members to push for the use of HTTPS by default for the Wikimedia projects,” said the statement published on the organization’s website.

HTTPS protocol shields against eavesdropping and tampering with internet communications, using bilateral encryption between the server and the internet user.

Using the protocol would minimize the risks of the snooping on users’ internet activity.

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http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-encryption-security-nsa-990/

[PoliticAverse]

1. "HTTPS is vulnerable to BREACH exploit – feds lack easy solution."

http://vr-zone.com/articles/https-is-vulnerable-to-breach-exploit-feds-lack-easy-solution/49263.html

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. K&R

[longship]

3. Good plan. R&K nt

[PowerToThePeople]

4. helping spread the word about encryption is good.

What would be nice to see are the web mail portals to put tutorials out on how to use pgp or gnupg with public keying to secure their email communications. Since the encryption is end-to-end, both parties need to use it.

http://lifehacker.com/180878/how-to-encrypt-your-emai

[Wilms]

5. ^

[DirkGently]

6. Be interesting if the "free market" finds ways to defeat

snooping. Could be extremely profitable. Snoop-proof phone, e-mail, etc. Will we then have laws banning snoop-circumvention?