Gmail Will Now Flag Emails From Non-Encrypted Sources

It’s Safer Internet Day and Google is celebrating in the traditional fashion: shaming internet companies that don’t encrypt their traffic. From today, any messages that Gmail users send or receive from email providers that don’t support TLS encryption will be flagged with a tiny unlocked padlock icon. Clicking the padlock brings up a dialog box warning the user that if their message contains “confidential information” they may want to advise their contact to use a different email provider.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gmail-now-flag-emails-non-170003897.html

 

They keep trying to throw more frogs into more hot pans of water hoping to bring them all to a boil. Maybe they don't expect the public or their userbase to see what they are doing here, but what they are trying to do is implement controls over your email at this point much like how they control what you can and cannot send or communicate with various platforms for social media. It always begins with a provider chastizing or 'suggesting' a different action or method than what you choose or select to use. That then changes into it being labeled as 'not safe' or 'not recommended', which then changes and leads to 'prohibited' status and 'if you do not do what we say, we will not allow your messages to be sent or received to their destination'. This is how control works, and always has whether it is digital or some other medium used to do it.

 

@IBMPC8088 Wow, do you really think it's going to get that bad? It sound terrible, I mean, censored e-mails? That sounds terrible! What will be next? Censoring Skype?

 

I wish I could be more optimistic about it, but the way surveillance of every manner of communication is done and the more power hungry companies become like Facebook and Google, the fewer rights and more restrictions of every kind you will see upon the people globally to the point that no one has any right as a human being to do basic things and communicate with one another if it isn't approved of. If they have their way, there will be no more freedoms or rights. It always starts this way, and ends like that or in a revolution. This time, they have so much technology in place that it will be difficult or impossible to mount a revolution to change things back like it were before.

The difference between today and any time from 30 years ago is that there was still a chance for people to turn things around before it got this far. Now? I don't see how they expect to do that without the same or better technology and resources on their side to manage it.