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by dinkumthinkum 5711 days ago
I don't really understand why this is a surprise or that we needed "Firesheep" to make this popular. This is just no-brainer. The ironic thing to me is that Facebook is so popular with colleges, exactly the places where kids sit there with wireshark running, happily gathering data. Firesheep is neat but I am confused as to why it takes this Firefox extension to point this out. I mean, everyone has heard of SSL right? What did we think that was for?