The days of plain HTTP were amazing, from the point of view of a teenage hacker that hung out at the public library of a college town.
At one point when Facebook started becoming popular, I had a script on my laptop that would grab session cookies from other people on the network and post things to the victims' facebook status like "I'm using unsecured wifi at the public library and I like to sniff butts"!
Learning that stuff taught me a lot about network security, and left me with a wariness of trusting networks that I don't control that I still keep close to heart long into my career.
At one point when Facebook started becoming popular, I had a script on my laptop that would grab session cookies from other people on the network and post things to the victims' facebook status like "I'm using unsecured wifi at the public library and I like to sniff butts"!
Learning that stuff taught me a lot about network security, and left me with a wariness of trusting networks that I don't control that I still keep close to heart long into my career.