Remember Firesheep ? Well, the cookie snatching Firefox extension now has a more portable cousin called FaceNiff. This Android app listens in on WiFi networks (even ones encrypted with WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and allows you to hop directly to the accounts of anyone sharing the wireless reference to you. Promptly it really works with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Nasza-Klasa (a Polish Facebook clone), but developer Bartosz Ponurkiewicz promises more are coming. You will need to be rooted to run FaceNiff — luckily, we had any such device laying around and gave the faucet-to-hack app a try. Within 30 seconds it identified the Facebook account we had open on our laptop and had us posting updates from the telephone. A minimum of with Firesheep you needed to sit and open up a laptop, you can now hijack Twitter profiles as you stroll by Starbucks and it will just seem like you’re sending a text message (but you would not try this… would you?). An additional image and a video are after the break.
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