FireSheep: Hacking now made easy

[Visual C#]

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I don't know if any of you have already heard of this, but it's been making rounds on the net lately, and for good reason:

Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily

Basically, even your 7 year old can now hack into anyones Facebook/Twitter (and also 40+ other sites that don't use TLS/SSL in their sessions). At major risk are people connecting via unsecured wifi. I'm not so sure if it works if you are connected to the same secured wifi network (WPA or WEP).

Now, I'm not so sure if i want to use my iPod touch when going to facebook on an unsecured access point.

has anyone tried it? i've already installed it, but haven't had the time to test it outside.

[salbahis]

this one will only intercept cookies session... nothing more... if you ecrypt your information i doubt... ive tried it na LAME... it doesnt work on everything so i remove it from firefox...

[Visual C#]

Have you installed winpcap? It is needed for firesheep to work.

About encrypting everything.. only possible if the website itself uses SSL/TLS. Not all sites can afford that. One way of encrypting is connecting to a VPN.. and again, not everyone has a VPN.

[salbahis]

Have you installed winpcap? It is needed for firesheep to work.

About encrypting everything.. only possible if the website itself uses SSL/TLS. Not all sites can afford that. One way of encrypting is connecting to a VPN.. and again, not everyone has a VPN.

winpcap in mac?

[Visual C#]

well, i didn't know you were using a mac. there you go.

you did know you were posting in the windows software forum, did you?

[salbahis]

well, i didn't know you were using a mac. there you go.

you did know you were posting in the windows software forum, did you?

i know but i also try on my winxp laptop with winpcap, mostly our connection here are encryped because we usually transmit sensitive information...