[liberationtech] Firesheep: Making the Complicated Trivial

[Seth David Schoen]

Douglas Finley writes:

> Isn't Tor designed exactly for these circumstances?

It lets you change one set of people spying on you and taking over your
sessions for another.

http://www.metafilter.com/67162/Amazing-discoveries-in-plaintext-Tor-exit-traffic

Firesheep can probably be used unmodified by a Tor exit node operator
on an unswitched wired network that their exit node is on.

Sometimes having a random stranger in a position to spy on you _is_
probably safer than the local network operator and ISP, though!

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Seth Schoen
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