Wikiless
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A free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy
  • riccardo@lemmy.ml
    19·
    4 years ago

    First reaction to this was “ugh, what’s wrong now with Wikipedia that we need an alternative front-end?”, but the issue is actually with Wikipedia being a sensitive target for NSA surveillance which makes it more likely to be compromised. Also nice list of NSA facts, bookmarked

  • LIESGREEDMISERY@lemmy.ml
    14·
    4 years ago

    One of the documents revealed by Snowden shows that both Wikipedia and Wikimedia has been listed as a so-called “Appid” in the XKeyscore – a program that covers “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet” – to identify web traffic, meaning that wiki related web traffic is something that NSA finds valuable.

    Sigh… I even registered a Wikimedia account for a photo contest years ago.

  • xvf@lemmy.ml
    12·
    4 years ago

    That’s interesting, never thought about Wikipedia being a privacy problem.

  • Gwynne@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    but isn’t wikimedia open source?

    All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Wikipedia

    does this make it more resource hungry