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WA Business News 19th May 2011

Copyright: WA Business News 19/05/11

Mooba & Firesheep

You may have read a piece in the Weekend West Australian today about something called Firesheep.  As the piece explained, this is a small but seriously powerful computer programme written by a clever chap in the USA that shows how unsafe some websites and WiFi networks can be. 

On Thursday Jason Jordan and Louise Bourke conducted an experiment at our Subiaco store to see if Firesheep really is such a big deal after all. It turns out it is, and it was pretty unnerving seeing total strangers accessing our Facebook and Twitter accounts.  We acknowledged that there was a problem with our open WiFi, and spent a large part of the next day trying to solve the issue.  After working with our ISP we managed to put a password on our WiFi, which will prevent Firesheep from working and therefore making it totally safe for our customers to use.  We're really grateful to Jason for alerting us to the problem, and for helping us to fix it so quickly.

This won't change how you can use WiFi at Mooba - it's still free and completely unlimited.  You'll just need to ask for the password when you come in (this will stay the same, so you should be able to store it on your laptop).  If you have any problems logging on, don't hesitate to give us a shout.

All the best

Mooba

Open letter to Rob Broadfield

See below for our response to Rob Broadfield's article in Wednesday's The West Australian 'Gods of the Grind Need Reality Check'.

 

The West Australian 17/03/10