Firesheep Will Force Secure Credentials
Firesheep is a Firefox browser plugin that allows users to sniff the browser cookies of other users on a wireless network. Then at the click of a button you can log yourself in to those users’ accounts as them.
From Codebutter here:
Websites have a responsibility to protect the people who depend on their services. They’ve been ignoring this responsibility for too long, and it’s time for everyone to demand a more secure web. My hope is that Firesheep will help the users win.
This is a gamechanger. Now that common web applications like google and facebook are so open to hijacking, web developers will be forced to secure credentials and user settings. Firesheep will accomplish it’s task: propelling the next step of Internet security. There have been hundreds of thousands of downloads of Firesheep already. I would avoid using wireless hotspots to check facebook, google, or twitter if you aren’t certain about that network’s level of security.
