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Gathering session cookies with Firesheep

Gathering session cookies with Firesheep

Posted Nov 11, 2010 5:24 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Gathering session cookies with Firesheep by foom
Parent article: Gathering session cookies with Firesheep

that sort of thing has happened. it's been documented to happen to www.microsoft.com and there's no reason to believe that it can't happen with a bank as well.

but if you watch out for the cert changing, as opposed to just the cert existing, you cover most of that problem


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