Encrypt ALL gmail traffic

Another great post from dmiessler:
Everyone loves Google. They want to be everything to everyone, and they’re getting pretty damn good at it. Once you start using their services it gets easier and easier to migrate more of your life to them. But there’s a slight problem.

Google, like any other legitimate service provider, encrypts login traffic, but not your content. So the moment you’re signed in they switch to plain-text communications and send everything to you in the open.

http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/why-you-should-encrypt-all-of-your-google-activities-poc

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Note to Self: Google has a Security Blog

Googles Security Blog is thin on the posts but here it is: Google Security

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Google Space

Google has an unorthodox style of business that continues to astound me. For one thing they started giving out 2 gigs of free space while Yahoo/MSN and others were still giving 250M and closing out accounts after 30 days of no activity. They also give 1gig of space for pictures with Picasa. Now they give 6gigs for hard drive space for a measily $20/year.

There were some rumors about them doing something called “gdrive” which would be an application that would use a bit a space on personal computer around the world. Genius! I can be quite secure too. I saw some technology built into the Sidewinder Firewall that effectively seperated every service in its own area of hard drive so that if that service was comprimised it would not do damage to the rest of the system.

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