sheepsafe | Keep safe from FireSheep

sheepsafe is a Ruby library. sheepsafe has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Sheepsafe is a small utility to keep you safe from [FireSheep][]! It’s a tool for mobile geeks. We all know the cookie-stealing issue has been out there for a while, but now with [FireSheep][], it just got way too easy. If you’re like me, I don’t want to get exposed at the next gathering of techies at a conference or even at a local coffee shop with this thing out there. So I built Sheepsafe for myself. Sheepsafe was built to automate the task of switching your network configuration to use a SOCKS proxy whenever you join an untrusted network. Sheepsafe works by keeping a configuration of known safe wireless networks. When you join an untrusted network, Sheepsafe switches to a network location that has a SOCKS proxy configured and starts a SOCKS proxy by SSH’ing into a remote server, thus protecting your browsing traffic from FireSheep and other snoopers on the local network. When you switch back to a safe network, Sheepsafe switches back to the default, trusted location and shuts down the SOCKS proxy. You could probably use something like [Marco Polo][polo] for this too, but this setup Works For Me.