New Delhi: In a bid to protect users’ web research, Wikimedia Foundation is encrypting all its web traffic on Wikipedia and other associated websites through HTTPS.
By having the traffic flow through secure servers by default, Wikimedia is ascertaining your web research, whether for a school project or for military research, is tough to intercept.
Wikipedia will also use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to protect against efforts to break HTTPS and intercept traffic.
The company explains in its blog that the HTTPS protocol will create an encrypted connection between your computer and Wikimedia sites to ensure the security and integrity of data you transmit.
Encryption not only makes it difficult for government or other third parties to monitor your traffic, but also makes it harder for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to censor access to specific Wikipedia articles and other information.
This growing concern about user privacy and data control follows the mega trove of confidential documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 which lay bare the US and UK governments’ mass surveillance activities, most of which were based on citizens’ online presence and usage.
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