Gathering session cookies with Firesheep
Posted Nov 8, 2010 17:06 UTC (Mon) by
gerv (subscriber, #3376)
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Gathering session cookies with Firesheep by ekj
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Gathering session cookies with Firesheep
I agree that Joe Public can't be trained to evaluate the danger of a changed certificate - but (and this is a big but) even if he cannot - how does that make him worse off, compared to http ?
Because if you make him used to dismissing changed-cert warnings, he'll also dismiss them when it's using CA-based HTTPS. Which makes him a lot worse off, because he'll get MITMed when accessing his bank.
Gerv
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