On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:32:31AM -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
> A friend of mind turned me on to https://www.google.com aka to have an
> encrypted conversation with Google.
> I've been using it, since I like as much crypt-o traffic on the net as
> possible.
> 
> But why? Anyone have any intelligent toughs on the subject, I would like to
> hear your take on the service and what it's good for.

Probably late to the party because I've been out of town, but off the
top of my head:

1 - You don't necessarily want to leak your search terms to interceptors
2 - Your auth cookie is very very important; don't leak them.
3 - Crypto is cheap.  Use it always.

-m


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