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."

Comments

Reverse or reverse?

[azav]

" Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool is planning to release it in two weeks."

What is a "reverse engineer?"

Is the product called reverse? If so, it should be Reverse, since names of things start with caps.

Re:Just for Google?

[mrchaotica]

It also actually makes sense if you use a period when you want to end your sentence. ; )

Also -- and this is just a stylistic suggestion, not an error -- if you really want him to say it, you should put quotation marks around "intents and purposes."

Re:Just for Google?

[roaddemon]

Since you are on slashdot, you probably have nothing to worry about.

Re:Just for Google?

[HTH NE1]

If a sentence ends with a quotation, the punctuation goes inside the closing quote.

That depends whether the sentence or enclosing sentence is or is not a question or exclamation, and vice versa, alternately or both, or if you're British (or just ahead of the curve).

It used to be that if you wanted to learn how to write and punctuate properly, you'd read books and learn to emulate their style. Unfortunately more books are being written by people who've never read one, or at least never a properly edited one.