Thanks for the tip. I'm shocked that I never noticed this before. The "Finger of Shame" should be wagged at me.

In the somewhat related category. gMail has as setting you can turn on to make sure that when you using mail.google.com it's secure. gMail always uses https to authenticate, but once your logged in you date will be sent in the clear unless you go into Settings -> General Tab and then at the bottom you can select "Always use https."