For those of you who used Yahoo to get your email, good news: it’s catching up to its competitors in making a common security setting the default. The Washington Post reports, Yahoo users will automatically use the SSL encryption standard beginning in January. Google made it the default for GMail web users back in 2010. Microsoft soon followed suit with Hotmail. Even Facebook and Twitter use it now.

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