On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:21 AM, David Fetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:14:18AM +0800, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi > wrote: > > > > Many of you have probably heard in the news about the new add-on for > > Firefox called Firesheep. This add-on makes it incredibly easy to > > sidejack non-‘HTTPS’ log in sites (for example Facebook and Twitter) > > if you connect to them over an open wireless network. While the > > ability to sidejack is nothing new this add-on makes it feasible for > > anyone to do it with one click. No programming or “hacker skills” > > are needed. As of this morning this add-on has been downloaded over > > 312,000 times and has only been available since Sunday. > > > > We know many of you have personal Facebook accounts and wanted to > > get this information to you as soon as possible. > > OK, stop right there. > > Facebook is a much, much bigger threat to your privacy than any > Firefox plugin could ever be. > > If you're going to warn people about threats to their privacy, warn > them about Facebook, not some amateurish little gizmo > . > When we log in to social networking and agreed for their T & C we already agreed to say "privacy is long gone". What does privacy looks like when we tweet our location, enable Google Latitude etc.
_______________________________________________ Owasp-Malaysia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420
