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By listening to and storing radio signals from the airwaves with any laptop, an attacker can harvest cookies from multiple users and go in to their Web 2.0 application. Even though the password wasn’t actually cracked or stolen, possession of the cookies acts as a temporary key to gain access to Web 2.0 applications such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo. The attacker can even find out what books you ordered on Amazon, where you live from Google maps, acquire digital certificates with your email account in the subject line, and much more.
Jordan Yerman
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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at 09:56 on January 31st, 2008
I remove cookies before using any public network*, because I'm paranoid, too. Looks like plist/pref files are safe, though, so email clients should be okay to run.
(* No doubt, though, I forget on occasion)
at 12:07 on January 31st, 2008
biverson, eeeek, that is scary. Much scary than a dude with a water bottle on the plane.