{"id":246,"date":"2006-02-27T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:31:27","slug":"useful-gmail-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Useful Gmail Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/\">Gmail <\/a>users among my readership (you two know who you are), a cool little tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxactivist.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/gmail-hack-encrypt-gmail-login-and.html\">make your Gmail webmail transactions secure<\/a>, thanks to Linux Activist.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of typing &#8220;http:\/\/mail.google.com&#8221; into your Web browser, type &#8220;http<strong>s<\/strong>:\/\/mail.google.com&#8221; (add an &#8220;s&#8221; after &#8220;http&#8221;). This gives you access to Gmail&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/S\/SSL.html\">Secure Sockets Layer<\/a>, which means that your transactions will be encrypted against casual and more-than-casual snooping.<\/p>\n<p>If you do a lot of your Gmail at public hotspots or over a neighbor&#8217;s unsecured access point, or if you&#8217;re simply healthily paranoid, you might want to take advantage of this unpublished feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those Gmail users among my readership (you two know who you are), a cool little tip to make your Gmail webmail transactions secure, thanks to Linux Activist. Instead of typing &#8220;http:\/\/mail.google.com&#8221; into your Web browser, type &#8220;https:\/\/mail.google.com&#8221; (add an &#8220;s&#8221; after &#8220;http&#8221;). This gives you access to Gmail&#8217;s Secure Sockets Layer, which means that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}