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DrZoidberg
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Hi,
I read about firesheep, a firefox plugin that allows you to log into other peoples accounts (twitter, facebook, etc). It's called session hijacking.
So now that every 12 year old is able to connect to a public wlan hotspot and log into other peoples accounts, I wonder how you can protect yourself from it.
How is it even possible? IP packets sent from one computer in a wlan network to e.g. facebook will go to the router and from there into the internet but all the other computers in the same wlan network should not even see those IP packets, do they? Is a wlan router actually sending each IP packet to ALL the computers in the network? Is it possible to prevent this?
I read about firesheep, a firefox plugin that allows you to log into other peoples accounts (twitter, facebook, etc). It's called session hijacking.
So now that every 12 year old is able to connect to a public wlan hotspot and log into other peoples accounts, I wonder how you can protect yourself from it.
How is it even possible? IP packets sent from one computer in a wlan network to e.g. facebook will go to the router and from there into the internet but all the other computers in the same wlan network should not even see those IP packets, do they? Is a wlan router actually sending each IP packet to ALL the computers in the network? Is it possible to prevent this?