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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I just read on Digg that the 1.1.3 firmware for the iPhone has been jailbroken. The team that did it, however, is not releasing it until Apple's iPhone SDK is out so that Apple doesn't patch it.

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