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Using and understanding https

Pt. 8 of 11 | 1:46 |

Gmail 401: Graduate Studies

Wednesday May 12, 2010

These days security is a big issue, especially when it comes to the Internet. You've got personal information, financial information and all kinds of other data that you don't want other people getting their hands on. So it is with email too. That's why Gmail provides an option of using https and

boosting your email security

. It's easy to do and we'll show you how in this tutorial!

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Show Notes

Note: Before beginning this series please view the complete Gmail 101, Gmail 201 and Gmail 301 series of tutorials.

- If you often use Gmail from unsecured wireless networks, you may want to boost your protection.

- Gmail offers the ability to use https which imposes 128-bit encryption.

- Click on Settings and then scroll down.

- At the very bottom under Browser connection check Always use https.

- Click Save Changes.

- Now your