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Originally Posted by turneronce
I am the original poster. I am 100% sure that I have not given my address to a suspicious entity. I recently traveled and used the hotels' unsecure wifi to check my emails. Of course I don’t use those wifis for sensitive issues, but can email be hacked in those situations?
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The default connection to gmail is via https or a secured version connection. You have to fiddle with connection settings in your browser to turn that off. There is no reason to turn that off unless you're on a WiFi connection that's trying to snoop on you. In the past, some public wifi may have prevented secure connections, but I seriously doubt any of them do it today.
There should also be a lock or symbol of some kind, it's different on different browsers, next to the URL address at the top. This means you are secure from your computer to google. No one can snoop on that.
Of course, it's possible that when you're on an open WiFi, that someone else could break into your computer, but frankly, that's beyond the skill is almost everyone and unless you've really opened up your computer intentionally, this is not something to worry about.