[Gomez]

FireSheep notifier here

[23 Everest]

How about putting this in English?

[TChad]

There have been over 671,000 downloads of Firesheep to date.

(Almost) all your airport and coffee-shop WiFi logins are belong to Firesheep.

So when does John Robinson release https://www.freerepublic.com?

[kitkat]

BTTT

[ShadowAce]

[zeugma]

BFL.

[dayglored]

> I wish the Firesheep developers could have made their point without putting this tool in the hands of bad guys, cranky teens, and disgruntled employees everywhere.

So-called "Security By Obscurity" does not work as well as fixing the security problem itself. Releasing this tool publicly makes tons of people aware of it that otherwise would not be. Not releasing it would mean that only the bad guys would have the tool.

Same as with firearms. If you don't allow the law-abiding public to have firearms, then only the criminals will have them. Banning guns does not keep them away from criminals. Banning tools like this does not keep them away from nasty interwebbers.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I love these threads. Thanks to advice seen here, I upgraded my router from WPA with TKIS to WPA2 with AES and a strong mnemonic password with upper, lower, numbers n symbols last week. Remember, you don’t have to outrun the bear, just outrun the other guys.

[NCnodeLOGICBOMB]

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