If you're accessing Facebook or Twitter from a public WiFi network at a cafe or some other public setting, anyone on the same network can easily access your account. In fact, today, Eric Butler released a Firefox extension called Firesheep that makes it child's play. In this short video, I show you Eric's extension in action and also show you how you can protect yourself from such attacks by using the EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension.

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Feathers (for Twitter) and Feathers Visage (for Facebook) have been updated to version 1.3.

This version contains several bug fixes to make Feathers work on iPads. Feathers for Facebook has also been renamed to Feathers Visage to comply with Facebook's trademark rules.

Last week, Feathers experienced an unexpected loss of service from Facebook® which meant that Feathers Visage (previously Feathers for Facebook®) could not post updates to Facebook®. This has now been fixed and you can once again post to your Facebook® profiles using Feathers. I would like to explain to you what happened and why.

On May 5th, without notice, and when I was busy preparing for a conference I presented at in Belgium this past Monday, Facebook® restricted Feathers's access rights, stopping it from posting status updates and thereby crippling the application. Unfortunately, this coincided with Feathers being featured on the German and Austrian app stores last week. This meant that a large group of people bought Feathers only to find that they could not update their Facebook® status with it.

I realized the extent of the issue only after returning from Belgium and immediately got in touch with Facebook® to find out why they had restricted the application and what I needed to do to get them to unlock our access. They replied to me on the evening of May 13th that it was because they considered the title of the app a trademark infringement (because it contained "for Facebook®") and because the icon contained the Facebook® "f".

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In the last few days I started seeing a surge of sales for Feathers for Facebook coming in from Germany and had no clue why. Today, I decided to check the German App Store and found that it was being featured!

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Yesterday afternoon, while wiling away time liking stuff on Facebook I got to thinking why voting couldn't be as easy as clicking a like button and decided to whip up a little like-your-candidate app in a few minutes using the new Facebook Like button and it became Facelection.

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