Google moves Gmail to HTTPS-only connection and encrypts all data between data centers

[Shawn Knight]

Google has boosted Gmail’s security measures in an effort to ensure nobody can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers, even if you are on public Wi-Fi or logging in from a public machine.

To do this, the service now will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when checking or sending e-mails according to a blog post on the matter.

The search giant said Gmail has supported HTTPS since the day it launched and made it the default in 2010. Up to that point, the choice was left up to the end user because HTTPS can make e-mail slower as encrypted data doesn’t travel as quickly across the web as unencrypted data.

What’s more, Google also said that 100 percent of every single message you send or receive is now encrypted when moving internally. This means that messages will be safe and secure not only between you and Google but as they move between Google’s data centers. Google said they made this a top priority after last year’s revelations.

They’re of course referring to leaked documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden regarding a program known as Muscular. Operated jointly by the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, the program was reportedly able to tap into the main communications links that connect data centers belonging to the world’s largest Internet companies like Google and Yahoo.

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[kuroiei]

Somehow I still don't trust them. No, really, deep inside I don't believe that doing something like that will prevent my privacy from anybody high enough.

 

[Jad Chaar]

This was quite late but it is better now than never.

 

[Raoul Duke]

They merely want to insure that if anyone gets data from Google that it is paid for and not just taken

 

[Guest]

Now the NSA has to invest 5 mins and use their court granted backdoor at Google. That will show 'em!

 

[misor]

Now the NSA has to invest 5 mins and use their court granted backdoor at Google. That will show 'em!

why would the NSA use a court order to access its 'backdoor at google'?

 

[Guest]

Remember what Mr Snowden told us about this:
you need end-to-end encryption,-- that is from you all the way to Alice -- not just from you to Google.

 

[Guest]

Why Gmail is acting as political censorship and close accounts at will from subscribers that use E-mail to inform the people on issues of government corruption. Google is actin as the Nazi collaborators during the campaign to exterminate the Jews. We can stop Google and G-mail by using other search engines, not one is indispensable specialty when they betray that people that support them.