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"Firesheep," a new add-on for Firefox that makes it easier to hijack e-mail and social networking accounts of others who are on the same wired or wireless network. Firesheep was released this past weekend at the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego. To protect yourself, 1. Use secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption to scramble the initial login - as indicated by the presence of "https://" instead of "http://" in the address field when submits your user name and password. 2. Use only secure wifi, no more coffee shops for you.