Secure access to Gmail

You can always be certain that you are reading Gmail securely when on the road or at an internet cafe if you always access Gmail using the following link:

https://mail.google.com/mail

Notice the s in https: that means a secure connection! It is "end-to-end" secure meaning there is a secure connection between the computer which is being used to access Google's mail servers.

So, if you are on a public WIFI system using your notebook, login ONLY at the https site because that means your username and password are not visible to hackers. Also, all of your email is encrypted and hackers can not read your email traffic. On the other hand, if you are at an internet cafe using their machine, then there is the chance that they have a keylogger installed and are capturing all of your physical keystrokes on their keyboard. Beware of public machines where you are not certain of the security!