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A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail
Ashik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."
I could care less about your grammar Nazism.
Why would anyone concerned about privacy use GMail at all???
When Google was nailed cold for driving past a No Tresspassing sign to take "Street View" photos of a family's private residence, Google responded in court by saying, "complete privacy does not exist".
Google's kow-towing to the Chinese gov't to help them censor Chinese dissidents are profusely documented.
Why would you want anything to do with such a heinous company?
Do you really think that Google Incorporated gives a rat's ass about your privacy? While Google's founding may have had some idealistic and good-hearted mindsets behind it, currently Google is just another for-profit corporation out to make as much money as possible. Your privacy matters only if it impacts the bottom line.