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How To Encrypt Your Gmail & Facebook Messages
- lvh 15y agoI am offended that people try to sell me AES as if that was a necessary and sufficient requirement for security. In this case, it's certainly not sufficient...
- pieter 15y agoOf course your autosaves will still be sent to gmail in plaintext while writing your original message.
- cgranade 15y agoWhat we really need is the ability to use pubkey systems like OpenPGP without hacking the script context of a page (a la FireGPG--- while good, it was fragile with respect to Gmail changes). I would love to have browsers bake in PGP support and for sites like Gmail and FB to start relying on the browser for encryption services.
- oakenshield 15y agoIt's best done at Google or at your email client. Anything elsewhere (e.g., at a browser) will suffer the same fate as FireGPG. I don't see Google ever doing it for Gmail -- normal people don't care about encrypting their emails, and Google will not want to risk losing the ability to show context-sensitive ads.
- mtogo 15y agoAh yes, AES implemented in javascript and dropped in a page via bookmarklet. What could possibly go wrong?
- oakenshield 15y agoPerfect. And the password will be shared over Google talk, I bet.
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