Starting from this Thursday, Gmail will use only encrypted HTTPS connections to send and receive messages. At this step, Google has gone in the light of recent scandals associated with the NSA and declassified projects to track information in cyberspace.
Gmail has been supporting the https protocol since 2004. True, users could only use this protocol in 2008. And in 2010, Google made the HTTPS protocol in user settings the main default.
From now on, Gmail will transfer data from your computer to mail servers and back exclusively via this secure protocol. This means that no one can penetrate your account and disable the use of this protection, which is enabled by default, in order to intercept data on the way to servers or from servers to your PC.
Google representatives also said that all messages located on the company's servers will be additionally encrypted in order to exclude the possibility of reading them. Previously, encryption was applied only at the level of sending data to servers and back to users, and when stored inside databases, these messages were vulnerable to attacks from the outside.
Of course, nothing can protect your data if a US government organization like the NSA, the FBI, or the CIA presents a warrant to receive such information. Nevertheless, the fact that corporations like Google have begun to take up the mind and strengthen the degree of protection of digital data from prying hacker eyes simply cannot fail to please.
Based on Gmail Blog
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