Now Anyone at Your Café Can Hijack Your Facebook Account
A new Firefox extension lets anyone sharing an open wireless network at your neighborhood café or workplace to easily access your Facebook, Twitter and myriad other online accounts. It's a terrifying tool designed to highlight a longstanding problem.Seattle programmer Eric Burler's new Firesheep extension can show you a graphical list of the online accounts of everyone sharing an open wireless network with you. With one click on an icon, you're instantly logged in as them.
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