7. Sniffing passwords on the network
Since the most of the internet traffic is not encrypted it’s really easy to sniff for user logins, passwords and the rest of their communication. The only way to protect your online privacy is to encrypt all sensitive communication channels. That’s sounds easy, isn’t it? But there’s one problem – encryption must be supported by server. However many servers on the web supports encryption for login page, but an entire communication encryption is still missing.
Google cares about users privacy and supports the SSL encryption
There are many services providing a full encryption, but your communication is encrypted just between you and encryption server provider, so all communication is readable between encryption server and the destination.
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