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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by sdurkin on Sunday October 24, 2010 @10:09PM (#1828131)
If you're on the same wireless network as someone, you have the same external IP address.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by spicyj on Sunday October 24, 2010 @10:14PM (#1828152)
And of course, if you can see the traffic, you can spoof the same User-Agent as well.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by oops on Sunday October 24, 2010 @10:44PM (#1828241)
Plus, your source IP can change from request to request when your ISP transparently pushes you through one of many proxy servers. AOL does (or did) this, as do some large European ISPs whose names escape me.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by modeless on Monday October 25, 2010 @05:22AM (#1829120)
Yet another reason NAT sucks...
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by ElbertF on Sunday October 24, 2010 @10:23PM (#1828183)
I realize that but at least my neighbors won't be able to hijack my session from home. Logging in over a public network always seems risky.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by chrisbroadfoot on Sunday October 24, 2010 @11:33PM (#1828386)
Are your neighbours on your private network? If not, you don't need to worry about them capturing your network data, because they're not on the same network.
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