When you're in Gmail, go to Settings, and towards the bottom you will see "Browser Connection". Select the "Always use https" and then log out and log back into your email. If you see https:// at the beginning of the URL then you're secured.
This will setup Gmail so that your company or malicious hacker can't automatically record your Gmail session.
Now why do you want to secure your web traffic? The reality is this, a large percentage of companies monitor and log employee internet usage. It's really easy for a company IT department to employ this technology, so no matter how small your company is, you're not free from this practice.
In fact I have a friend who owns a small business with a handful of employees, and he digitally records all his employ keystrokes all their computers so he knows everything about the internet habits.
[via Gmail Blog]
3 comments:
that's great, but I am an exhibitionist like most bloggers, facebookers, twitters and myspacers etc
haha, it's true that it's futile to hide on the internet. Might as well as embrace it.
Hey Ian, I had no idea you read my blog. Hope you've been doing well.
um you just confirmed my worst nightmare. that my company knows exactly how much i'm on the internet!! scary.
can this block type thing be done for yahoo?? shoot, can it be done for EVERYTHING?! Hahahaha....
maybe i should work, while at work.
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