[hmmm this subject is not really ops now is it...] On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it.
(or just use https://encrypted.google.com which is available for quite some time already)
If anybody on this thread uses gmail com a you really ought to take a look at google plus. Compare the way user privacy is the primary objective, versus the share everything by default of facebook.
Since when is encrypting a transport (in this case using TLS/SSL) 'user privacy' ? The only thing it is protecting is intermediate networks sniffing or even modifying the traffic and more importantly for the company who gets all your private information: their revenue stream when they sell that data. And really, giving all your private emails to a company that explicitly reads them (even if it is 'automated') to advertise to you and then mentioning 'user privacy' is just ridiculous ;) Greets, Jeroen