**w Gmail Encrypts Messages Sent to Google Servers

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**w Gmail Encrypts Messages Sent to Google Servers
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Starting Thursday, Gmail (http://mashable.com/category/gmail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection for sending and receiving email.

Gmail has supported HTTPS since 2004 (an option to enable HTTPS as the default setting for a particular account was added in 2008) and in 2010, Google made HTTPS connections (http://mashable.com/2010/01/13/https-gmail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) the default user option.

See also: Turn on Gmail's 2-Step Verification - **w (http://mashable.com/2012/08/08/gmail-2-step-verification/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


**w, Gmail will only transfer data between your computer and Gmail's servers through an HTTPS connection. That means there is ** chance of someone disabling the option on your account or machine in an attempt to intercept data before it hits Google's servers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/gmail-https-only/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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