Comments on: This is Why You Should Be Encrypting Your Communications with Google [Traffic Included]

By: Maxo

Maxo — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:12:25 +0000

The Firefox extension Customeize Google has options to autmatically redirect all your Google traffic to the https version. Very useful.

By: j

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:42:02 +0000

I think if someone's sniffing packets on your network, they're just a fart away from decrypting if those packets happen to be encrypted.

But Tor is pretty cool.

By: Zhasper

Zhasper — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:53:32 +0000

You're such a linkwhore lately :)

There's a bunch of firefox extensions you can use to enforce this as well - everything from greasemonkey scripts to full blown extensions.

The downside, of course, is that the HTTPS connections take more resources on both ends, require more CPU time to process, generate more network traffic, etc.

Also, if you're going to access gmail via SMTP or POP3, SSL is enforced...

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:30:53 +0000

Appears as if I can’t access Google Notebook over https :(