Comments on: More than one gmail account? Check out GAlert http://journal.drfaulken.com/more-than-one-gmail-account-check-out-galert/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: drfaulken http://journal.drfaulken.com/more-than-one-gmail-account-check-out-galert/comment-page-1/#comment-107 drfaulken Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:29:20 +0000 http://journal.drfaulken.com/?p=142#comment-107 Yes. Your gmail traffic is being sent unencrypted over HTTP by default. In your Web browser, you can manually add the "s" to the end of "http" to encrypt the data stream. Why gmail doesn't do this by default is a little beyond me. Yes. Your gmail traffic is being sent unencrypted over HTTP by default. In your Web browser, you can manually add the “s” to the end of “http” to encrypt the data stream. Why gmail doesn’t do this by default is a little beyond me.

]]> By: configuratrix http://journal.drfaulken.com/more-than-one-gmail-account-check-out-galert/comment-page-1/#comment-106 configuratrix Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:18:27 +0000 http://journal.drfaulken.com/?p=142#comment-106 <i>One of the other benefits of GAlert is that it uses HTTPS to check your mail, instead of Gmail's default (non-encrypted) HTTP protocol.</i> I think this is the part I was wondering about. This means my Gmail mail is being sent cleartext, instead of like how (I think) it's handled with my ISP I have to ssh to? One of the other benefits of GAlert is that it uses HTTPS to check your mail, instead of Gmail’s default (non-encrypted) HTTP protocol.

I think this is the part I was wondering about. This means my Gmail mail is being sent cleartext, instead of like how (I think) it’s handled with my ISP I have to ssh to?

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