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Originally posted by Verte
I bet it's possible to secure yourself by encrypting all your IP traffic, though you will need a way to decrypt it at the server end.
Yes. We call that a "VPN"
Google was actually
going to offer a VPN service for secure communication over open WiFi a few years ago. I am not sure what became of that, but suspect not much. I have a VPN set up at home for this very reason, so that I can secure my communications when I travel and have to use dodgy WiFi hotspots.
In any case, sniffing and cookie stealing is no news, and as ShawnZ correctly notes, using
https://gmail.com (so that your session is fully encrypted, not just the login page) should also help.
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