Wikimedia has announced that all of its web properties – including the enormously popular crowd-sourced dictionary Wikipedia – will now use HTTPS encryption by default.
The step means that the half billion users of Wikimedia sites will have their browsing traffic encrypted, making interception and monitoring by third parties considerably harder. It also makes mass censorship by ISPs or governments more problematic.
Wikipedia switches to HTTPS by default
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