Upside to Google’s Adventures in China?
January 20, 2010
From the silver-lining dept and Slashdot: Here’s one possible outcome of Google’s recent spate of problems with the Chinese government: They’ve now decided to make HTTPS the default transport option for their Gmail service.
While this move didn’t get as much attention as all the other “big issue” stories, it is a minor victory of sorts for NGOs and activists whose activities might attract the attention of the Chinese government. By making secure transmission the default, non-tech-savvy users no longer have to go through this to protect their communications.
