The codemonkey item that I link to from there says in part Makes you feel a little vulnerable knowing all your public information was so nakedly exposed over the past few years, huh? Did Google know about this?
It turns out they were well aware of it. The reason Google didn’t grant users the SSL feature before, according to Perry, was because SSL is expensive. It takes a lot of bandwidth and time on both the receiver and transmitter sides to generate keys and encrypt data. Slower data connections would experience a lagging Gmail experience.
Google knew about it. Why didn't THEY warn us?
(This is intended as a historical note, not an "I told you so".)
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Date: 2008-09-09 08:20 pm (UTC)The codemonkey item that I link to from there says in part
Makes you feel a little vulnerable knowing all your public information was so nakedly exposed over the past few years, huh? Did Google know about this?
It turns out they were well aware of it. The reason Google didn’t grant users the SSL feature before, according to Perry, was because SSL is expensive. It takes a lot of bandwidth and time on both the receiver and transmitter sides to generate keys and encrypt data. Slower data connections would experience a lagging Gmail experience.
Google knew about it. Why didn't THEY warn us?
(This is intended as a historical note, not an "I told you so".)