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There has been a lot of talking, over the past few months, about a Firefox extension called Firesheep which, in the words of author Eric Butler,
“demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks“.
Discussions around the Internet on the matter have been quite heated, with lots of people thanking him for his efforts in raising awareness on the security issues of modern Internet applications, and many others blaming him for making it way too easy for anyone -even people who know close to nothing regarding security- to hack into other people’s accounts on social networks, webmails and other web applications, provided some conditions are met.
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