The recent attack on Google from China perhaps has nothing officially to do with the decision of the U.S. giant to strengthen the security of its messaging service, he does that everyone will automatically link between these two information. Thus, Google announces that it has decided to extend the use of SSL encryption on all its messaging traffic, whereas previously only the identification page of the Internet was really secure.

In fact, he had to go into its options to enable SSL encryption in his emails, that relatively few users were doing, hence the decision of Google now automatically activate the encryption. So, Google - which believed that enabling this option could affect the transfer speed of e-mails - chooses the safety performance in taking this decision.

Conversely, it will therefore now go to its options to uncheck SSL if you do not wish to apply the encryption protocol. Similarly, it will go through a change of options if you do not wish to systematically apply standard Secure (HTTPS), for example if working from a network that is considered reliable.

Finally, Google said that it is now six months that its developers are working on the establishment of security options most appropriate for Gmail. This does not prevent the giant U.S. to advocate the use of antivirus software and that of an Internet browser updated to guard against possible attacks.