| | Here's why: If you don't, all your information is exchanged as plain text for anyone sufficiently interested to read—including passwords.
Actually, no matter what Web site you are using to exchange personal or sensitive information—and especially for e-mail services like Gmail—you should check to make sure it has Secure Socket Layers (SSL) enabled. You can tell by looking for the https prefix to the URL, known as a URI scheme.
But if you use Gmail's Web interface, you really should turn on SSL right now, because according to the folks over at Hacking Truths, a reverse engineer in the Bay Area will be releasing to the public in two weeks a Gmail hacking tool that takes advantage of accounts that do not have SSL enabled.
Here are instructions to turn on Gmail's SSL feature, courtesy of Vincent Mo.1. Click "Settings" in the top right corner of Gmail
2. Scroll to the bottom and select "Always use https"
3. Click "Save Changes" |
| | Posted 8/21/2008 2:20 PM - 70 Views - 6 eProps - 5 comments
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