A new Firefox addon known as Firesheep can allow someone snooping a public WiFi spot to steal many social networking connections of the other WiFi users. The addon relies on an unfortunate practice used by many websites to switch to insecure methods to transport the data content after the secure username/password authentication. Combine this vulnerability with the ability to see other computers’ traffic in a shared media environment (such as WiFi), and you can “sidejack” any web session that relies on the authenticated user’s cookie. »Read More
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New Website
If you can read this post, then you can access the new server for www.dna.org. I’ve switched to BlueHost.com as my service provider, and am using WordPress on the Apache web server. I’ll migrate any still-useful content over to the new server over the next week or so. In the case anyone’s interested, I’ll document what themes, plugins, and/or widgets I add to the site.