Security

This page discusses the extent to which Readable is secure.

Sites Requiring a Login

Readable can be used on any site which requires a login for access — like, say, Google Mail or Google Reader.

(Oh, and in case you were wondering, you should know that Readable can in no way find out your login for the sites you use it on — not that Readable would want to do that, anyway.)

Readable can also be used on sites over SSL.

No Calls Home

It's not that Readable promises not to do anything with the content it processes for you, it's that it actually doesn't receive that content.

None of the processing required to make content readable is done on our servers. It's all done — in JavaScript — on the particular page you've invoked Readable on.

The only thing Readable could know about the content you were reading is it's URL.

The CIA

In other words, if you work for the CIA and you have just received a top secret — and very long — email, written in Bold, 18 point, Comic Sans MS, have no fear. You can stop struggling to read said email on the CIA's super secure clone of Gmail.

Use Readable. I promise you won't be compromising national security.

(Oh, and as for the content's URL ... If you're afraid national security might be compromised if someone ever finds that out, you can still be at peace — if you're on the CIA's super secure computers, I guarantee you they strip out the http referrer from all outgoing requests.)