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Google’s Revamped Gmail Could Take Encryption Main...
Implying that encryption is not already mainstream. What do you think that lock symbol in your browser means?
greenpresident
on April 24, 2014
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I means your connection to the server is encrypted and that your browser trusts their certificate, preventing stuff like sniffing and mim attacks. It does not mean that emails on the server are encrypted, which is what this is article is about.
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