wifi

If you ever use the free, non-encrypted wi-fi at your Internet cafe, now is the time to stop!

A new Firefox extension called Firesheep now makes it ridiculously easy for a no-gooder to hijack anybody's session who is currently logged-on to Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay, Craigslist, GoDaddy and more - simply by finding a user on the same network and double-clicking their connection.

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At CivicActions we know all about open WiFi networks, and I often get asked by friends about "internet security" and specifically, how secure their activities are when they are on open networks. David Pogue covered the issue in his column today. While he believes his wifi traffic is not worth snooping ("Frankly, I consider the details of my life so boring to other people that I really couldn’t care less. I’ve got nothing to hide, so why not accept it?") he disabused his readers of any notion that their WiFi traffic was generally safe from snooping eyes.

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