Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped

Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by jlgaddis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @06:51PM (#7112364)

Google's (outgoing) servers will use STARTTLS if it is advertised by the destination mail server.

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Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by ams6110 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:05PM (#7113128)

You still have to assume that an ordinary email is a clear-text communication, no matter who you are sending it to, unless you are using PGP or S/MIME.

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Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by psc on Thursday January 23, 2014 @07:58PM (#7112696)

Never knew, do you a have a source on this? Not that I don't believe you, I just want to read more about it. A Chrome extension that shows you if STARTTLS is being used would be really neat.

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Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by jlgaddis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:58PM (#7113266)

Source: Me, who runs (among other things) mail servers for an ISP.

ETA:

    Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com (mail-pd0-f169.google.com [209.85.192.169])
    	(using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits))
    	(No client certificate requested)
    	by MAIL.MYDOMAIN.COM (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BBFA2909
    	for <[email protected]>; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:00:32 -0500 (EST)

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Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by iso-8859-1 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:38PM (#7112853)

How does Chrome have anything to do with this?

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Re:Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped by ams6110 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:06PM (#7113137)

This is a server thing. Your mail client, web-based or otherwise, wouldn't know.

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