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Gmail is about to become more secure than ever 
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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... er-1235764

Be nice to believe that, wouldn't it?

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Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:37 pm
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Given they can read it, it isn't actually secure at all.


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Way to misreport, this is even more inaccurate than the Guardian report on the Microsoft.

They introduced this a year or so ago and most people have been using it anyway, but you could disable it, now they are forcing an https connection.

This has nothing to do with encrypting the emails, this is just encrypting thru page you are looking at, so that it cannot be snooped on in an open wifi spot or in a company network, for example.

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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:39 pm
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big_D wrote:
so that it cannot be snooped on in an open wife spot

I know this is an autocorrect error, but still one does wonder what that might be...


Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:36 pm
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jonbwfc wrote:
big_D wrote:
so that it cannot be snooped on in an open wife spot

I know this is an autocorrect error, but still one does wonder what that might be...


I thought snooping was exactly what went on there :lol:

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