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What can I do to protect myself against Firesheep?

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Mar 15, 2026390 views
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In the SU chat yesterday is was raised that the newly released FF plugin Firesheep makes it very easy (obviously it was already possible, just difficult) for an attacker to session sidejack another user. This is achieved by copying the sessions cookies from any http transmission that the attacker c…

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The best solution would be to use an encrypted connection from point to point. That is not always an option though because some websites do not offer HTTPS on all parts of their website, such as Facebook, they only offer full HTTPS at the login scre…

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