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Ariel Glenn WMF

1 Apr 2016 1 Apr '16

11:03 a.m.

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for those who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn

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Petr Bena

1 Apr 1 Apr

2:20 p.m.

Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for those who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Huib Laurens

2:24 p.m.

Aprils fool? On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org <javascript:;>> wrote:

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for

those

who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Dan Andreescu

2:27 p.m.

:) I would like to think that April Fools would be a little more extreme than this Petr, the data people are downloading from dumps is not sensitive itself, but a user's private information (such as User Agent, IP, etc. is vulnerable over plain http). So the move to https protects that from snoopers like the NSA. I don't have much to do with this change, and I consider it beneficial, but does it cause any problems? On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Aprils fool? On Friday, 1 April 2016, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org <javascript:;>> wrote: > We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday),

redirecting

plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for

those

who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Ariel Glenn WMF

3:11 p.m.

This is part of a longstanding general plan to move to https for our services. You can track (most of) those items here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/162/ although the specific task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128587 is not listed there. In particular you might look at a couple of the tasks under 'Big Picture', i.e. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104681 HTTPS Plans (tracking/high level info) and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75953 RFC: MediaWiki HTTPS policy (though that doesn't directly address dumps). Ariel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for

those

who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Ariel Glenn WMF

8 Apr 8 Apr

9:57 a.m.

This is now live, if a few days later than expected. Ariel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

This is part of a longstanding general plan to move to https for our services. You can track (most of) those items here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/162/ although the specific task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128587 is not listed there. In particular you might look at a couple of the tasks under 'Big Picture', i.e. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104681 HTTPS Plans (tracking/high level info) and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75953 RFC: MediaWiki HTTPS policy (though that doesn't directly address dumps). Ariel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Can you give us some justification for this change? It's not like when downloading dumps you would actually leak some sensitive data... On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for

those

who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Dan Andreescu

1 Apr 1 Apr

2:25 p.m.

Cross-posting this announcement since people on Analytics-l tend to use dumps a lot basically http access is being redirected to https starting April 4th On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting plain http access to https. A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for those who may have restricted https access. Ariel Glenn _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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