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> Firesheep was a 2010 invention. Once that happened, anyone could chill in a coffeeshop and watch the http traffic whizz by. That's incorrect. Firesheep perf
by IncRnd 9y ago
> Firesheep was a 2010 invention. Once that happened, anyone could chill in a coffeeshop and watch the http traffic whizz by.
That's incorrect. Firesheep performed session hijacking using unencrypted session cookies.
- joombaga 9y agoWhich part of the comment is incorrect?
- IncRnd 9y ago> Which part of the comment is incorrect? I quoted the incorrect part of the comment. Then, I posted a correction to the comment that is incorrect. Firesheep doesn't display the HTTP traffic whizzing by but steals cookies for a session - allowing the malicious party to view information from the server, not the information between the sever and client.