Development and Snoopery

posted October 26, 2010 #

  • FireSheep - a Firefox plugin designed to show a common flaw many large sites use in their authentication method. Basically, it allows you to snoop on users logging in to a number of sites and then "sidejack" their data and log in as them. Fun for use in a coffee shop / open network but scary as a user using such a network that the data can be nabbed so easily.
  • Flickr Photo Gallery - a nice PHP solution for using Flickr to create a custom gallery. The phpFlickr package for the Flickr API is already pretty easy to use but this seems to add yet another level of ease.

What is it you're looking for?