It seems like every time Facebook amends it’s privacy policy, the web is up in arms. The truth is, Facebook’s well publicized privacy fight is nothing compared to vulnerability of all unsecured HTTP sites — that includes Facebook, Twitter and many of the web’s most popular destinations.

Developer Eric Butler has exposed the soft underbelly of the web with his new Firefox extension, Firesheep, which will let you essentially eavesdrop on any open wi-fi network and capture users’ cookies. As Butler explains in

When you start to think about it, Malcolm Gladwell – author of The Tipping Point and frequent contributor to high-brow magazines – and Chris Dixon – co-founder of Hunch and investor in Skype, Foursquare, Stack Overflow and others – have a fair amount in common.

Like Gladwell, Dixon – as