...wow, so a tool that lets you log in as someone else's facebook. Niceee

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of silky
Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 6:03 PM
To: ozDotNet; [email protected]
Subject: OT(ish) - Firesheep

May be of interest to some:

 http://codebutler.com/firesheep

"When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your
username and password. The server then checks to see if an account
matching this information exists and if so, replies back to you with a
"cookie" which is used by your browser for all subsequent requests.

It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by
encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites
to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user)
vulnerable [...]"

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