Your Gmail, Now More Secure

In these past few days, Gmail has silently started logging in users via HTTPS from their old HTTP standard. The change comes as Google hopes to make their online services more secure, appealing heavily to onlooking potential enterprise customers.

Comparably, HTTPS isn't much different from HTTP. The HTTPS is a transfer protocol that uses SSL/TLS encryption methods to prevent otherwise suspicious data and identity theft via the internet.

Think of it as a key ring. Your username and password only makes one key. And if your key fits in Google's lock, then you're into your inbox.

Hopefully, more online services will follow suit. As we've learned increasingly over the past decade: identity and data theft are growing at an alarming rate.

Comments

[Aran]

FYI, Google has provided HTTPS for years, it was an option you had to select in the Settings...

[Brandon K]

Gmail has been logging in that way because it's more secure. There is someone in China who is hacking a lot of Gmail accounts and Google thinking about pulling out of China entirely.