Wikipedia goes all-HTTPS, starting immediately

The next time you look up the Wikipedia entry on the Zimbabwean dollar, it will be a lot harder for someone to snoop on you.

The Wikimedia Foundation announced that starting Friday, it has begun “the process of implementing HTTPS by default to encrypt all Wikimedia traffic.”

It will also use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) “to protect against efforts to ‘break’ HTTPS and intercept traffic.”