Comments on: Firesheep – On Your Wifi Hijacking Your Interwebs

By: neightd0g

neightd0g — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:36:00 +0000

Thank you cat cubed. This is very well written and I was able to use it to actually get the attention of my facebook friends.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0000

Thanks, I fixed the typo.

Also sure a SOCKS proxy alone isn’t secure but isn’t it secure with a SSH tunnel?

By: rubin110

rubin110 — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:42:22 +0000

WAP != WPA.

WPA2 PSK encrypts each connection differently, so sniffy the air is not all that easily possible. All that aside it doesn’t stop someone from just simply running a dump on a gateway (like the network gateway you’re using, or the wifi access point) between you and the internet.

SOCKS isn’t secure at all, Firesheep wont look for that sort of traffic, but someone else’s tool might.

I think my project for this weekend is to get this running off of my phone…

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