Yesterday Google made a pretty small announcement in regards to a big change (at least from my point-of-view).
The news is that they are going from non-SSL to SSL as the default option in Gmail. For those non-techies reading this, this means that instead of sending the traffic from Google’s servers to your local computer in an unencrypted form, which is vulnerable for other people to eavesdrop on your communication (eg. reading your emails as you are reading them), they are now encrypting the traffic. By doing this, it becomes fairly difficult for someone to eavesdrop on your communication (although not impossible).
For the security conscious people out there, this option have been available for quite some time (since 2008 to be precise), but it has not been enabled by default.
This is pretty amazing. It must take some seriously incompetent IT people to lose 22 million emails (or perhaps an organized cover-up). But now we at least know that it’s possible.
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Email is not the secure communication medium that most people take it for. Even if you’re using HTTPS or SSL to access your email account, after your message leaves your mail server it travels across the internet as relatively plain text until it reaches the intended recipient. During that journey, your message can be read or tampered with by cyber-criminals, government agencies, your ISP, unscrupulous network administrators, or anybody with some network knowledge and packet-sniffing software. Think of it more as sending a postcard through the mail, rather than a sealed envelope.
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