Unless you’re aware of how this works, it’s possible that your GMail traffic is being sent over the internet in the clear. More worrying is the prospect that your boss or other company officials might be able to monitor your personal email communications at work. If this is something you’re interested in preventing, the solution is simple. Change your GMail bookmark to be https://mail.google.com/ instead of http://mail.google.com/. By doing this, GMail will continue to use the secure connection for your entire session, rather than just for the login page.

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