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Renegade:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1391297/How-takes-just-15-minutes-web-tuition-hack-email.html

Hacking in to an email account is easier and faster than you may expect. In fact it takes less than 15 minutes, according to a new study.

A class of volunteers, including a TV producer, a self-employed baker and a retiree, were able to learn how to hack into someone's account in less than quarter of an hour. 

The small group who had limited technological knowledge, followed an online tutorial using a ‘man in the middle’ technique to hack into a computer network and obtain each other’s login details. 

The controlled classroom experiment conducted by Life assistance company CPP  Group Plc (CPP) involved the volunteers following a 14-minute tutorial which is freely available online.
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First result for "man in the middle tutorial" turns up this:

http://openmaniak.com/ettercap_filter.php

Youtube turns up this:



Well, I suppose we all knew that all that was out there. Sigh... Why can't people focus more on being productive rather than destructive?

phitsc:
Is this guy logging in to google without https? I didn't even know that was possible.

And looks like too much effort to get at a password that is: test ;)

Carol Haynes:
seemed to https in the sniffed output - so why isn't is encrypted?

You can switch off https in GMail - and in the early says http was the norm. I don't think older accounts were automatically updated to https.

app103:
You can switch off https in GMail - and in the early says http was the norm. I don't think older accounts were automatically updated to https.
-Carol Haynes (May 27, 2011, 04:09 AM)
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I have one of the oldest accounts and yes, it was automatically updated to https.

Renegade:
It's a man in the middle attack, so you get to do whatever you want. :)

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