Wifi, and how people can easily hack your email

If you use public hotspots, like at Starbucks or your public library, read this.

Someone went and made it easy for people to hack your email and just about any site that uses a login (except banks, which stay encrypted). So email, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking stuff. Heck, even some online shopping like Amazon.

Read about it here:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/11/01/firesheep.wifi.security/index.html

Suggested solutions don't work all the time (forcing HTTPS only works if the site supports it all the time, and VPNS are not easty to set up and slow stuff down):

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/26/how-to-guard-yourself-and-your-mac-from-firesheep-and-wi-fi-snoo?cnn=yes

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/five-ways-to-shear-firesheep/283?cnn=yes

While I knew this was possible, I did not know it had been made extremely easy until today. So I figured I'd share.