Eseme's Den

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.

*sigh*

This is a stealth post from work. I'm technically on lunch.

So I somehow failed to pack the power cord for my computer. It's being mailed to me from Maine. So while I now have Roadrunner, I can't really USE it.

*sigh*

Job is very great thus far. I've got a meeting tomorrow at breakfast, another one next week... a Board meeting sometime, and I'll be going to a conference in Lake George in April. Plus I should be able to attend both cons this Spring (SimCon in Rochester and UBCon in Buffalo) and the library thinks of it as vaguely job related. And I got flowers! And have two adult programming events to run, one this month and one in April. And I may be the kinda-sorta YA librarian, at least as far as events and programming go.

Other than the internet mess, life is good.

But I will be scarce online, because I can't get on the internet after work on a public terminal, because I am here until the library closes...