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

Subject: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read
From: yang.yu.list at gmail.com (Yang Yu)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 03:56:04 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:17 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
> I am curious -- what exactly are those "obvious reasons"?  (And for the record HTTP *IS* being used, it is just being tunneled inside a TLS connection).

For a popular site, it would be doing a disservice to its customers by
not using HTTPS, even for static content.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci15/foci15-paper-marczak.pdf

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