Marketplace Tech Report for January 28, 2011

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You can make your Facebook more secure

by Molly Wood

Jan 28, 2011

A few months ago on our program we talked about Firesheep. It's a little program that you can use to spy on anyone on an unsecured public Wi-Fi network. Using it, it's easy to tap into Facebook accounts since those run on an unsecured protocol. But now Facebook has done something about it, allowing users to select an "https" setting instead of "http".

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