David Chartier's dashboard

It isn't a secure connection to Pownce or Gmail/Hotmail servers, but I don't think it's much to worry about for the general user. For those using public terminals, sure, maybe it would be good advice to avoid using this. But I'm at home on my own machine, on my own secured wireless network, and I don't think I'm an exciting enough of a person for a stranger to be sitting outside our town home, cracking my WPA2 password and sniffing every letter I send over the network.

It's also probably worth noting that this kind of "import your contacts from other services to see who's on this service" feature is popping up everywhere. I'm pretty sure it isn't a secure connection at all those other sites too.