foggy
Valued Member
Hi,
I'm new here and the welcome message said for a new user to post a new question in this forum (if I wasn't sure where else to go with it), so here it is....
I have a question about full-session SSL/https for webmail users. I don't know much about it all, but from what I understand it's a rather basic layer of protection that just about all email providers (FastMail, Hushmail, Lavabit, EuMX, GMX, Gmail, etc.) offer their users with the except of two of the most popular: Yahoo and Hotmail. Yahoo's supposed to be coming out with a new webmail (in the next week or so) which may or may not have added this feature. Hotmail, OTOH, has been promising it and may implement it in the next few months.
Well, with all the worries out there about hacking -- and with Yahoo and Hotmail being the most hacked services, I believe -- I'm just curious why so many people use those services' non-secure webmail. I know many may have had their accounts with those providers for a long time, but there are other free (and low-cost) providers with better security, no ?
Maybe I can reduce this to two related questions:
1. Just how concerned should someone be if he/she uses the non-secure webmail interfaces of Yahoo and Hotmail (i.e. how much protection is lacking by not having full-session SSL) ?
2. If there is a security concern in not having full-session SSL/https, why do so many people not find another, better provider that does have it (even Gmail) ?
Thanks for any comments !
I'm new here and the welcome message said for a new user to post a new question in this forum (if I wasn't sure where else to go with it), so here it is....
I have a question about full-session SSL/https for webmail users. I don't know much about it all, but from what I understand it's a rather basic layer of protection that just about all email providers (FastMail, Hushmail, Lavabit, EuMX, GMX, Gmail, etc.) offer their users with the except of two of the most popular: Yahoo and Hotmail. Yahoo's supposed to be coming out with a new webmail (in the next week or so) which may or may not have added this feature. Hotmail, OTOH, has been promising it and may implement it in the next few months.
Well, with all the worries out there about hacking -- and with Yahoo and Hotmail being the most hacked services, I believe -- I'm just curious why so many people use those services' non-secure webmail. I know many may have had their accounts with those providers for a long time, but there are other free (and low-cost) providers with better security, no ?
Maybe I can reduce this to two related questions:
1. Just how concerned should someone be if he/she uses the non-secure webmail interfaces of Yahoo and Hotmail (i.e. how much protection is lacking by not having full-session SSL) ?
2. If there is a security concern in not having full-session SSL/https, why do so many people not find another, better provider that does have it (even Gmail) ?
Thanks for any comments !