Geek PSA

Julian Sanchez | 11.2.2004 12:14 PM

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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Pepe 20 years ago

Google says they've fixed it
galius_persnickety 20 years ago

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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