cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Roger Hayter]

In message <20081207175248.GA18443@annexia.org>, Richard Jones 
<rich@annexia.org> writes
>On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:23:14AM +0000, Dave wrote:
>> The offending article is currently blocked by virgin media, though it
>> can be seen via alternative access methods. So, being paranoid here,
>> will my attempted viewing of the page be logged, and will I now receive
>> a visit from the rozzers......?
>
>Wikipedia has an HTTPS access method.  I wasn't aware of it until this
>nonsense came up, and it's not the 'obvious' method (ie. s/http/https/
>in the URI), but I'll be using it from now on.  I don't expect anyone
>to spy on my Wikipedia reading, just as I don't expect anyone to spy
>on my paper encyclopedia reading either.  Here it is:
>
>https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page
>
>Rich.
>

As a matter of interest it appears to send the JPGs unencrypted 
according to Mozilla and IE.  It does encrypt the titles though, so 
someone would really have to be looking to spot them.  But can't 
pictures be quite economically detected by looking for some sort of 
short pattern - this is almost on topic?
-- 
Roger Hayter