How often do you go to a coffee shop with a laptop along with you to have a taste of coffee? Will you login your facebook? or twitter or whatever that required you to enter your ID and password? Then, how secure do you think your information is?
Not really secure before October but it is much more dangerous after October. Yes, With the recent release of Firesheep, which an addon for firefox browser, it really enables a really NOOB computer user able to steal other people login information damn easily.
What the Firesheep do are just filtering packets that are not from port 80/8080 (HTTP), get the login information from the hexadecimal packet and create a GUI for users so the can get the login information of others in just a few clicks. What you really have to worry is that the program behind that actually executes the commands, the Wincpap ( or Unix Libraries). It will actually captures every single packet in the Wi-Fi network. However, the packets are basically unreadable by novices. But with the existence of Firesheep, the world of hack changed again.
For your information, the director of Firefox stated that his team will not do anything on the Firesheep since the Firesheep did not really exploit any vulnerabilities of their browser. So, it is totally on your own responsibilities to prevent your information from getting hijacked now.
After reading the post, will you still login your Facebook, Friendster or Twitter in a public Wi-Fi network in the future?
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