[WingForward]

A few days into it and I've decided Eric Butler made a mistake in releasing Firesheep.

Security is about battling a combination of Time + Talents/Tools + Determination + Opportunity.

Firesheep greatly increases the Tools someone has to hack an account. Eric has made browsing much less secure.

The intended result is to bring the security issue to people's awareness, which he has done. But the result should have been to increase security. That will only happen if the the change in required Tools is balanced by a decrease in Opportunity (free wifi becoming simple password wifi at a minimum).

I doubt that will happen. Releasing Firesheep was a mistake.