Darren Watt

Much has been made on Tech news sites about the cracking of WPA, which was thought to be fully secure.

My recommendation to understand the actual facts on this is to have a listen to Security Now podcast in which Steve Gibson explains in patronising but accessable words, which is useful.

Revealing how its done you have to wonder why it took so long to find this flaw. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes from here but as it stands WPA is not what I’d call ‘cracked’.

Just read somewhere that Gmail now has an option to always access gmail via https rather than http. Oddly enough I was after that the other day, and now they’ve done, so its entirely possible they read my mind. It’s a good thing because it keeps your email more secure. It will potentially make mobile GMail stop working, but worth a check anyway.

HTTPS, look. see.