nationwide interception of Facebook & webmail login credentials in Tunisia

Richard W.M. Jones rich at annexia.org
Tue Jan 25 11:35:27 GMT 2011


JGC's blog has the technical details:

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/01/code-injected-to-steal-passwords-in.html

Moral of the story is to use https:// URLs to fetch the initial form
(ie. https://facebook.com/).  The Firefox HTTPS-Everywhere extension
automates this completely (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) -- no
thought or technical skills required.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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