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Uh, SSL doesn't guarantee privacy, it just guarantees transport privacy (usually). If the data is stored insecurely, you still are easily vulnerable. If you're

by bifrost 13y ago

Uh, SSL doesn't guarantee privacy, it just guarantees transport privacy (usually). If the data is stored insecurely, you still are easily vulnerable. If you're using a trojaned SSL system (PRC, corporate, etc) this doesn't make you safer at all.

passfree 13y ago
You are right. Yet, it is better than nothing.
- annnnd 13y ago
  Actually, no - it is far worse than nothing. It makes you feel secure while you are not. I don't understand this line of reasoning - why would HTTPS be the cure for the privacy problem? So you can post sensitive data through HTTPS to Gmail and it will be "private"?
  - passfree 13y ago
    It is not a cure. I doubt that there is a single technology that can be called a cure. It is a solution.
    - annnnd 13y ago
      My point was that it is neither a cure nor solution. It does of course help when combined with other means, but this plugin obviously can't supply those.