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August 26, 2008, 02:54 PM ET
man in the middle attacks
Wireless networks are great. They are particularly great for thieves, posing as trusted Web sites, who can pluck your financial information out of the air while you are shopping for jeans online at a coffee shop hot spot. Now university researchers have come up with a relatively simple fix—a plug-in to the popular Mozilla Firefox Web browser- that makes it much harder for pretenders to gain your trust.
David Anderson, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University,
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