A
few months ago, one Eric Butler,
a freelance web developer and security researcher from Seattle, released a Firefox
extension called
Firesheep. Firesheep allows the user to hijack HTTP
sessions transmitted over unsecured wireless networks. In other words, someone
can walk into a coffeeshop, open their laptop, and via nothing more than a
public wifi connection, find other patrons and log in to their accounts on
sites like Facebook without a username or password. Read more »