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Re:Firesheep, a day later by mooism2 on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @07:40AM (#1833786)
About 60% of client computers are running Windows XP, according to http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...

Clearly they're not all running Internet Explorer, but equally clearly it's far too early to lock out clients that lack SNI.

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Re:Firesheep, a day later by calloc on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:04PM (#1834714)
Since all of the browsers on Windows XP use the Windows SChannel API none of them support SNI. That includes the beloved Google Chrome, FireFox, and Safari. (Not sure about Opera on Windows XP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Support

That is unfortunately an issue that only Microsoft can rectify unless developers on the Windows platform want to take the time and effort to re-implement parts of the SChannel API.

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Re:Firesheep, a day later by acqq on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:29PM (#1834834)
> none of them support SNI. That includes (..) Google Chrome, FireFox, and Safari

You're wrong about Firefox! I'm writing this from an XP box and I've just tested a SNI site with Firefox 3.6. It works with SNI just fine.

> Not sure about Opera

Opera also works with SNI.

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Re:Firesheep, a day later by calloc on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:39PM (#1834892)
My apologies regarding FireFox. I don't use FireFox and when I do it is from a Mac OS X machine.

Either way Internet Explorer doesn't support it and as such it is still a no-go from a usability stand point since XP still has such a large market share.

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Re:Firesheep, a day later by TheSOB88 on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:34PM (#1835157)
He's just saying that Facebook can deal with it much better than a small shop.
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