Tim Dupree

Ever looked at your address bar while reading your email in Gmail and noticed that the page wasn’t encrypted (”http” and not “https”)? Google sends you to a secure page to login, but by default sends you to an un-encrypted page to view and send emails.  I’m not too sure why they do this, but there is a simple hack around it.

If you want to always browse your e-mail with high-grade encryption (AES-256 256 bit),  a more secure encryption than most banks use, just change you Gmail bookmark to point to https://mail.google.com/mail/.  You will be sent to a secure page to login, and once you are authenticated, you session will remain encrypted while you read/send mail.