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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by GVRV on Monday October 25, 2010 @12:36AM (#1828562)
Definitely, I guess as a uni student, I'm worried about the majority of non-technical students who are going to have their sessions hacked and have no clue what hit them and cannot setup proxies/tunnels.

I'm not saying this isn't the site's fault. They definitely need a wake-up call.

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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by mike-cardwell on Monday October 25, 2010 @05:51AM (#1829168)
This was already happening on a massive scale before this new app was released... I honestly don't think it will increase the number of attacks by all that much. It's brilliant as a tool for spreading the word though.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by silvermoonstar3 on Monday October 25, 2010 @10:30AM (#1829913)
It was happening on a massive scale, but now a huge amount of really lazy people who didn't bother to do this before are. It had 3,000 downloads after 2 hours of release. The thing is, most universities have protection set up. It seems Cisco NAC is actually good for something. I never thought I'd say that. The extension certainly doesn't work on my campus.
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Re:Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox by mfukar on Monday October 25, 2010 @03:50AM (#1828961)
The problem goes beyond client-website interaction. Improper wifi configuration also plays a big part in what Firesheep can achieve. ;)
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