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.

Watch the video.

A quick reminder that the session I'm presenting tomorrow at FOTB has changed. My new session is called Grab the low-hanging fruit: or 5 rules for Hedonistic Creatives.

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A last minute change:

I'm going to be presenting my brand new session, Grab the Low-Hanging Fruit (or 5 Rules for Hedonistic Creatives) at Flash on the Beach next week.

The session got rave reviews at previews in Amsterdam and Belgium this week and I hope you guys will enjoy it too at FOTB in Brighton.

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I had an absolute blast previewing my new talk, Aim for the low-hanging fruit (or 5 rules for Hedonistic Developers), at the Adobe User Group events in Amsterdam and Ghent during the Adobe CS4 launch.

I always love presenting in both the Netherlands and Belgium -- you guys are so awesome -- and this time was no exception.

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OK, I couldn't help it. There's so much tabloid journalism going on in our industry these days that it's probably not long before we actually start seeing such titles. I'm waiting for: JEREMY KEITH IN ALIEN BABY CONSPIRACY!!! (all caps and three exclamation marks and all).

So what was I saying again? Oh yes, I've just sent an updated session description to Koen for my talk at Multi-Mania. Don't worry, the Google App Engine stuff is still in there (ooh, Google App Engine, yummm!) But there's more... :)

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