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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."

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  1. Good thing Slashdot is safe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or else someone could hijack my accBILL GATS SI TEH DEVLI!!!!!!!!!

    1. Re:Good thing Slashdot is safe... by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good thing Slashdot is safe...

      Or else someone could hijack my accBILL GATS SI TEH DEVLI!!!!!!!!!

      Yep, looks like slashdot is unaffected for the moment.

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  2. Re:Reverse or reverse? by Intron · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is a "reverse engineer?"

    A very specialized transmission engineer in Detroit.

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  3. Re:Ow ow ow. by dat+cwazy+wabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could of died when I saw that.

  4. Re:Ow ow ow. by cetan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most people "could care less."

    Which hurts on many levels...

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  5. Re:Ow ow ow. by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its a waist of time to corect peoples gramar and speling. Your simply not going to brake there bad habits irregardless of how you feal.

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  6. Re:Reverse or reverse? by Loki_1929 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's someone who manufactures a problem using only working solutions.

    You might also know them as: "politicians".

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  7. Re:Ow ow ow. by Lostlander · · Score: 5, Funny

    It burns us! Nasty tricksy, little hobbitses.

  8. Re:UNLESS YOU CHECK, you are insecure! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank you for WARNING US but DO YOU THINK you really need to SHOUT that much in your SENTENCES?

    I mean, it's not like WE DON'T APPRECIATE your tips, but IT CAN GET A BIT ANNOYING when people keep SHOUTING every other WORDS.

  9. Re:Just for Google? by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not "in tents with porpoises?" I thought it was about cetacean hentai.

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  10. Re:Ow ow ow. by toby · · Score: 1, Funny

    could have

    Yeah, yeah, grammar pedantry is bad. Nevertheless, this stuff hurts to read.

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  11. Re:But it was NOT secure... by howdoesth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows hotmail is evil and yahoo is irrelevant.

  12. Re:UNLESS YOU CHECK, you are insecure! by waztub · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, I don't think you were clear about one point in particular. Should I or should I not set the preference...?

  13. Re:Just for Google? by Hordeking · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know this is being pedantic, but you are missing a period after the quote or you should have moved it outside the quotes. The urge is too strong since you seem to be so happy harping on missing periods...

    My girlfriend has been missing her period. Should I be worried?

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  14. Re:Just for Google? by tomcode · · Score: 1, Funny

    Irregardless, hackers do work with all intensive purposes, so the price free information is internal vigilance.

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  15. Re:READING helps by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Funny

    I reed slashdot, witch is why I spell gooder than any won els.

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  16. Re:Ow ow ow. by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    depends on the version of the neural compiler, and customizations etc

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  17. Re:Just for Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girlfriend has been missing her period. Should I be worried?

    It depends; will the father be financially supporting the baby, or will you be stuck paying the bills?

  18. Re:Ow ow ow. by barzok · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could care less.

  19. Re:Just for Google? by Culture20 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you what it's not for, then you'll understand why I can never go back to Seaworld.

  20. Re:Just for Google? by Spokehedz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Obg link to bash.org

    http://www.bash.org/?244321

    Explains user-unsecurity.

  21. Re:Ow ow ow. by jonaskoelker · · Score: 3, Funny

    waist of time

    Mmm... ourglass...

  22. Re:Ow ow ow. by jonaskoelker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could careless

  23. Re:UNLESS YOU CHECK, you are insecure! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    YES IT STILL WORDS! Unless you SET THE PREFERENCE, you DIE!

    Mike Perry will COME IN TO YOUR HOME and MURDER you, UNLESS YOU SET THE PREFERENCE!

    Even CHUCK NORRIS will get haxx0r3d UNLESS YOU SET THE PREFERENCE.

    ALL YOUR PREFERENCE ARE BELONG TO US.

  24. Re:Ow ow ow. by clone53421 · · Score: 3, Funny

    People who use "could" instead of "could not" do so out of ignorance or laziness

    ...but NEVER sarcasm.

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  25. Re:UNLESS YOU CHECK, you are insecure! by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Funny

    javascript:void(document.body.style.textTransform="lowercase");

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  26. Re:Just for Google? by corbettw · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you're begging the question a bit there.

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  27. Re:Ow ow ow. by MrTheBunny · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm dyslexic you intensive clod!

  28. Re:Just for Google? by Pope · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Fuck The What" ?

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  29. Re:Just for Google? by edmicman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Watch it! That's a slippery slope your going down!

  30. Re:Just for Google? by colourmyeyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read Slashdot because it's a place where a comment about the British rule for placement of punctuation relative to quotation marks is modded "informative."

    ...in a discussion about using SSL for for an email service.

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  31. Re:Just for Google? by mgiuca · · Score: 2, Funny

    YOU'RE