Your Gmail is vulnerable to being hacked

[Irisheyes]

Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now

and like everything in life it's not that simple
SSL Gmail Not As Safe As You Thought

I don't fully understand all this so if anyone reading knows their stuff I'd really appreciate a summary.

[bode]

all your gmails are belong to us!!!11!1

[reprisal]

Summary: With out SSL any 12 year old 733T hax0r kiddie who can "see" your wireless traffic can hack your gmail account just by sifting tho data your transmitting in plain text. (See meaning it isnt all ready fairly strongly encrypted or he all ready has the key). With SSL someone who knows what theyre doing can still actively force your computer to cough up the goods.

This page explains it pretty well I think http://blog.icir.org/2008/02/sidejac...cking-and.html

[Galapogos]

Is it like this with all web-based email services or just gmail?

[will641]

thanks irish.

[Hawk]

In other news, all your internet accounts are vulnerable to being attacked if standard security measures are not in place.

[euphoricism]

Is it like this with all web-based email services or just gmail?

its true for like 99.9999% of web sites.

Even this one.

You should absolutely not use any password on a poker site that you use or have ever used for something else.

also, while sitting in a starbucks and 20 tabling sounds awesome, it could be very dangerous.

[Galapogos]

Is it like this with all web-based email services or just gmail?

its true for like 99.9999% of web sites.

Even this one.

You should absolutely not use any password on a poker site that you use or have ever used for something else.

also, while sitting in a starbucks and 20 tabling sounds awesome, it could be very dangerous.

I think it sounds chachi and queer, does this make me safe now?

[animal_chin]

I always thought that hacking somebodies email with like a brute force program or something would be 10 times easier than hacking their poker acct. You just log on to their poker acct and say you lost your password and they send it the email acct you hacked. Bingo bango you have their monies.

[Halv]

use different email adresses for your random stuff and for poker.

[Numbr2intheWorld]

This should be stickied it's very important