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Re:Total Cookie Protection by Thorrez on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:52AM (#26247044)
You used to be able to simply install a Firefox extension[1] or Android app[2] and automatically steal the accounts of everyone on your wifi network on every website. https stopped that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep

[2] http://faceniff.ponury.net/

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Re:Total Cookie Protection by Macha on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:37AM (#26248907)
Widespread https did that. Firesheep motivated the big players to stop cheaping out and go fully https unlike approaches which did https for login pages only but it took let's encrypt also for https to become truly widespread
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Re:Total Cookie Protection by Thorrez on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:07AM (#26261076)
100% agree
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