Firesheep on a Mac running FileVault
You may have seen Ben’s post earlier this week on Firesheep. I am running a Mac and I use FileVault, as I recommend most people do in order to protect their sensitive files. Unfortunately the current release of Firesheep does not support FileVault. That didn’t stop me, here is what you need to get Firesheep running on Firefox 3.6.x on a Mac running FileVault from start to finish.
- Download the Firesheep .xpi file here.
- Drag the .xpi file into your Firefox browser window to install it, then quit Firefox.
- Move the extension folder from your user account to the application folder. The /Users/[youraccount]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[yourprofile]/extensions/firesheep@codebutler.com folder should be moved into the /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/extensions folder.
- Relaunch Firefox, and you should be good to go. If you receive an error related to “–fix-permissions”, make sure you moved the folder (and didn’t copy it), and if it still didn’t work try running once as root (sudo /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin).
Enjoy. Use responsibly. And encourage your local coffee shop owner to turn on WPA2 to limit its usefulness.
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Oh, and then there’s FireShepherd, a console application designed to crash Firesheep.
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