Julian Sanchez | November 2, 2004
Via Declan McCullagh's Politech list comes an unsettling report of a serious security flaw in Gmail. E-mail with caution 'till this is fixed.
UPDATE:...which it apparently now has been. Never mind.
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Duh.
Your email is not encoded or encrypted in any way.
Everything you send/recieve is plain text that can be ready by
anybody as it passes through the internet.
This is common to all email systems, not just Google.
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