{"id":213034,"date":"2017-05-30T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=213034"},"modified":"2017-05-30T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:19:33","slug":"https-has-helped-safeguard-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/213034-https-has-helped-safeguard-wikipedia.html","title":{"rendered":"HTTPS has helped safeguard Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1\/32741922\/Wikipedia_Censorship_final.pdf?sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>New research from the Harvard community<\/strong><\/a> found that HTTPS has prevented governments from seeing which page a user is viewing on Wikipedia, which helped fight censorship in numerous countries.<\/p>\n<p>This study analysed the scope of government-sponsored censorship of Wikimedia sites around the world.<\/p>\n<p>It found that, considering the widespread use of filtering technologies, there was relatively little censorship of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, our study finds there was less censorship in June 2016 than before Wikipedia\u2019s transition to HTTPS-only content delivery in June 2015,\u201d said the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>HTTPS prevents censors from seeing which page on a website a user is viewing, which means censors must choose to either\u00a0block the entire site or\u00a0allow access to all pages.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggests that a\u00a0shift to HTTPS has been good for accessibility to information.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/192704-most-viewed-articles-on-wikipedia.html\">Most-viewed articles on Wikipedia<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTTPS has prevented governments from seeing which page a user is viewing on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21905,4696],"class_list":["post-213034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-https","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213166,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213034\/revisions\/213166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}