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Even Adm. Thad Allen, the Coast Guard commandant, has been updating his blog. And some smart search-and-rescue controllers even used Facebook to locate an overdue mariner. It’s something of an about-face for the service, which once looked on the new media with some suspicion. As Noah reported recently, the military services are starting to get the hang of this whole Internet thing. The Army recently ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, reversing a longstanding ban on web 2.0 locales on military networks. Over at CGBlog, an unofficial Coast Guard blog, Ryan Erickson recently wondered if the Coast Guard would follow suit by giving its personnel more access to social networks.
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Google responded saying it is “looking into whether it would make sense to turn on HTTPS as the default for all Gmail users” If you don’t want to wait for Google to take the decision you can change the connection type to the more secure one (HTTPS) by yourself. Change the connection type to HTTPS To use always HTTPS connection in Gmail, do as follow: Click ’Settings‘ at the top of any Gmail page.Set ‘Browser Connection‘ to ‘Always use https‘ (see image below)Click ’Save Changes.’ choose ‘always use https‘ After changing the setting you’ll notice that the when in Gmail, the URL always starts with https rather than http (see image below).
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