With suspicion, I regarded the tea bag. Reluctantly, I poured the boiling water — almost. Once again, I examined the bag.
Was it okay? The tea bag itself looked all right. The problem was its sealed envelope: it had not been, well, sealed.
With vigor, I finally poured. Tea bags have, after all, come but loosely thrown into fragile cardboard boxes forever; right?
Emails are no tea bags. So, to ensure all the messages you get and send are safe, look okay and cannot be intercepted by anybody along the way (to Gmail's servers at least), let's put them in envelopes sealed and tight:
›› Make sure the girl on the next table sharing the public WIFI connection cannot read your emails. Gmail can even enforce such secure connections so you're safe by default.
Was it okay? The tea bag itself looked all right. The problem was its sealed envelope: it had not been, well, sealed.
With vigor, I finally poured. Tea bags have, after all, come but loosely thrown into fragile cardboard boxes forever; right?
Emails are no tea bags. So, to ensure all the messages you get and send are safe, look okay and cannot be intercepted by anybody along the way (to Gmail's servers at least), let's put them in envelopes sealed and tight:
›› Make sure the girl on the next table sharing the public WIFI connection cannot read your emails. Gmail can even enforce such secure connections so you're safe by default.
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