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BenSchaechter on March 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked at TED

So someone in the audience was using Firesheep. Horrors.

https://twitter.com FTW

timtadh on March 3, 2011 [–]

I agree. This strikes me as non-news. Side-jacking is a bad thing. We get it. Use VPN, use SSH tunneling, in general don't be dumb when using an open network. If possible use the https version.

joezydeco on March 3, 2011 | [–]

The two tweets Kutcher made from TED were from the iPhone client and foursquare. Are there SSL options on those?

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