Now, is it too much to hope that AOL might be the next to implement a HTTPS option for its email service?įollow on Twitter for the latest computer security news. Hopefully in time, Yahoo will decide to enable the option by default – as it is with Gmail, Hotmail and. It’s unfortunate that Yahoo has made the HTTPS/SSL setting disabled by default, meaning that users are required to turn it on if they want better privacy. Log out from the AOL mail and open the Outlook desktop application. In addition to what you love about Gmail, you get a custom email address (), unlimited group email. If you are using Yahoo Mail, my advice is to enable this privacy option as soon as possible.
That’s because, without HTTPS, they are sent as unencrypted text. If you don’t have full-session HTTPS turned on for your webmail, anybody on your WiFi network could read any of the emails you write and receive using a tool like FireSheep, as they are transmitted from Yahoo to your browser. Yahoo Mail has lagged behind competitors such as Hotmail (in the process of being rebranded ) and Gmail by not allowing users to access their email through HTTPS. It has taken Yahoo a ridiculously long time, but it is finally rolling out an option that will help protect users’ privacy when accessing their web-based email – HTTPS.
