[DM-MUG] GMail hack, ref security issues

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Dear Victoria: As a distant reader of the MUG news,would you please be more
explicit about this issue? I'm a mac user,not very technical,but I can follow
directions.
Thank you
Juan trujillo
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From:    "Victoria L. Herring" <vlh at herringlaw.com>
To:      MacLaw <MacLaw at yahoogroups.com>
Cc:      MUG Des Moines <dmmug at dmmug.org>
Subject: [DM-MUG] GMail hack, ref security issues
Date:    Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:19:24 +0000

> 	http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/19/1433206
> 
> "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and 
> breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon 
> hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new 
> feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and 
> use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. 
> Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as 
> Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the 
> tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."
> -- 
> Victoria L. Herring, Attorney in Des Moines, Iowa -  Civil rights, 
> Discrimination & Employment Law, http://www.herringlaw.com.  Ph. 
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