Google will test the feasibility of a version of Gmail that allows to give more guarantees of security and privacy to users, announces the international press.
Posted on June 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized
The criticism from several experts have been at the root position of this company.
The company must change its servers to the data transfers in Gmail will all be automatically encrypted, connections through HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). Currently the link is only in encrypted authentication (log in), from that moment all connections are made without such security.
Thirty-eight experts in security and privacy on the Internet wrote a letter to Google warning of the need to change the system of your e-mail service.
The procedure that is used is risky, say experts. Becomes relatively easy access for hackers – using shared wireless networks, for example – the Google accounts and all information contained in emails, through a technique known as “session hijacking”. “If you want to take possession of the identity of someone, it is in the mail box you should find it,” said Cristipher Soghojan. Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Soghojan was one of 38 signatories of the letter. The HTTPS will not only encrypt the email, making them more difficult to read, and allows the authentication of servers.
Currently users can now use HTTPS connection during its meeting in Gmail, but then we need to access the “settings” and activate the option “always use HTTPS. In the version that will be tested, this option will be activated automatically – “default”.
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