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A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail

Posted by timothy on from the oh-that-hurts dept.

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."

12 of 530 comments (clear)

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

    I could of died when I saw that.

  3. 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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    It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
  4. Re:Ow ow ow. by Lostlander · · Score: 5, Funny

    It burns us! Nasty tricksy, little hobbitses.

  5. 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.

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

    Everyone knows hotmail is evil and yahoo is irrelevant.

  8. 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?

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

    I could care less.

  10. 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.

  11. 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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