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stopher723

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Did you all see the commotion caused by Firesheep? Best you look into something like HTTPS Everywhere to protect yourself. Looks like I'm back to using Firefox and not Chrome. :huh:

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Alexander

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I only download popular addons (as they are most likely "safe" as widely tested or reviewed) and use WPA2.
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What's scary is the number of sites that do NOT require SSL for submitting passwords.
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Alexander

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If I recall there is an SSL certificate that will be recognized as a root certificate in the future that is free, that will be nice for websites who cannot afford a verified SSL setup.
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Hmm pretty interesting. As long as there are hackers though they will find loops holes and exploits. will be a constant battle