Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care?

An anonymous reader writes "Following the Firesheep uproar, I spent some time telling people who don't read Slashdot about the vulnerability that open WiFi networks create in what seemed like the most effective way possible: by sidejacking their accounts and sending them messages about how it happened. The results were surprising — would users really rather leave their accounts open to intruders rather than stay off Facebook at Starbucks? The link recounts the experience, and also lists some rough numbers of how many accounts could be compromised at a popular NY Starbucks location."

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Re:Some people don't care

[Bigjeff5]

What is really iron is that this guy is decrying how people don't pay attention to the risks they are taking, while he himself tells the world that he has committed about 30-40 felonies in a single night.

Maximum jail time is 200 years (obviously he'd never get that), minimum if convicted of 30 counts of felony is 30 years.

Who's not paying attention to the risks here?

What a dumbass. I sincerely hope he goes to jail for it. Maybe then these idiots can gain a little perspective (probably won't though, the community is full of these self-righteous idiots).