Making Gmail always use HTTPS without any Greasemonkey

It’s the stupidest solution, but I hadn’t thought of it before.

I had seen that the Better Gmail extension had this feature of making Gmail always run over HTTPS, but it also came with so much other stuff that I found it to be just too bloated, and kept wishing for a simpler solution (meanwhile exposing my privacy to all those sniffers out there — oh the danger!).

Of course, I could always replace “http” with “https” on the address bar, but it’s a pain doing that every time. If only I could set it to be always like that…

Wait a second: I always start Gmail as my home page. Always use Alt+Home when I want to go to it. Yes, people, I had this brilliant idea: why not just put the address with “HTTPS://” in the configs as my Home page?

And that I did. Now I’m a safe, happy Gmail user. No extensions, no glitchy Greasemonkey scripts. Just the ululating obvious.

Joga.com not a phisher

Ok, this might look like I’ve been missing out on some obvious news out there (and, in fact, I am), but it was a great relief when I found out that Joga.com is indeed a product by Google (and Nike).

The smell of phishing came when I got a link from a friend, took a quick look at the front page, which looked like that of an ever-so-common flash game, and saw that GoogleAccount login box standing out from the rest, completely not blending with the rest of the page style.

After the relief, it’s still scary to think what damage a phishing like that could do, given the huge ammount of information we’ve been throwing into Google’s hands these days.