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Yeah. There's a Firesheep handler for news.yc too:

https://github.com/codebutler/firesheep/wiki/Handlers

This website should really be migrated to https.

Heaven forbid someone in a coffee shop posts something on your HN account…

:) Yeah, not the end of the world... but many, many people use the same password (or one with slight variation) on many sites. Sure, they "shouldn't", but, still...

or editing your yc application.

It's not just that. Some countries inspect web traffic. Some of them disapprove of conversations on some topics.

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