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28 Feb 2011 10:28

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Tech: Our wifi champion? Chuck Schumer’s anti-Firesheep crusade

New York’s top Senator wants sites like Amazon and Twitter to switch everything over to HTTPS because of that whole Firesheep thing. Glad he’s focusing on this. source
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27 Jan 2011 11:14

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Tech: Protip: Turn Facebook’s “Secure Browsing” on. Immediately.

  • A word of advice: Turn this “HTTPS” thing on. Trust us. Make it harder for people to hack into your Gibson when you’re sitting in an Atlanta Bread Co. looking at the latest update about that girl who broke your heart when you were in the seventh grade and now long for like a total creepbag. Snoop on your friends without having to worry about others snooping on you. Turn this on. Trust us. You’ll feel better about it in the morning. source
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25 Oct 2010 10:16

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Tech: Firesheep: Bringing light to a serious problem, but at what cost?

  • From a hacker’s perspective, releasing this was a good idea. Firesheep is a Firefox plugin that allows you to spy on people’s cookies from within a wi-fi network, effectively allowing you to log into other people’s accounts without knowing their passwords. Great, this will get people to work on this very significant issue and force HTTPS connections. But the problem is, you’ve released an exploit that makes it easy for people to spy on anyone, something that anyone can use. And most of those people will not have the idealistic ethics of the creator of this program. Yes, you’ll get Facebook to use HTTPS, even though it’ll cost them money. But you’ve enabled script kiddies to read personal information at coffee shops everywhere. Not everyone is a hacker. Not everyone is going to appreciate the existence of this. They’ll just feel violated. source
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