Jude Britto wrote, [on 10/30/2008 8:27 PM]:

> Any requests your browser makes to www.google.com go to their machines
> instead which apparently transparently proxy the real www.google.com.
> 
> If you are signed into your google account (gmail), these requests will
> include browser cookies that are meant to be shared only with the domain
> that issued them (they can be used to spoof you).

I agree that this is a potential issue.

However, to make it moot (at least in the case of gmail) one could use
only https to access it. [1] [2]

Udhay

[1] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8155
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076
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