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[Faken]

Check this out:

http://www.komonews..../107360348.html

SEATTLE -- On a recent afternoon, I surprised a lot of people at a coffee shop in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. I walked in, sat down, got onto the café's free Wi-Fi network and fired up a free application called Firesheep.

With a minute, the names of a dozen people on the same wireless network started to appear in the Firesheep program. The users were listed along with the names of multi-billion dollar websites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, YouTube and The New York Times.

Check out the entire article, scary how easy it is to expose yourself...

[rc69]

Rule #1 of free public wifi: Don't use free public wifi.

Same goes for "Coffee shop" wifi. I'm sure there are ways to protect yourself, but i don't know of any. If you look around a bit more, you'll see the rabbit hole actually goes a bit deeper though.

Edited by rc69, 12 November 2010 - 11:16 AM.

[PSgirl]

I'm sure there are ways to protect yourself, but i don't know of any. If you look around a bit more, you'll see the rabbit hole actually goes a bit deeper though.

SSH tunnels?

Also read this:

Sites that keep an "https" in the address bar during the entire session are using encryption and cannot be accessed with Firesheep. Banks commonly use "https" for the user's entire online session.

It's not as bad as they want you to believe. Gmail works always with https, and Facebook too if you are careful.

Edited by PSgirl, 12 November 2010 - 04:39 PM.

[SebLev]

hello, i am singmely, welcome to the forum, in fact, i am new too, nice to meet you , ha ha

^^^^ Bot doesn't even know how to spell it's own name.... missing an "a" ... programmers are just getting sloppy.

[Faken]

hello, i am singmely, welcome to the forum, in fact, i am new too, nice to meet you , ha ha

^^^^ Bot doesn't even know how to spell it's own name.... missing an "a" ... programmers are just getting sloppy.

Stupid bot is stupid lol!

[charlesj]

That is pretty scary...good info. Thanks for sharing.