hey i found a new toy for iceweasel

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 22:18:23 MST 2008


On Feb 4, 2008 9:00 PM, Micah DesJardins <micahdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you use
>
> https://mail.google.com
>
> instead of http://mail.google.com it remains encrypted after you log in.

This is not necessarily true.  There have been attacks in which Google
session ids can be compromised if for a time HTTPS is disrupted.
Google then attempts to utilize the non-https session and exposed the
id, which can then be used to log into the account without a user/pass
combo...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."


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