On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:36:03 -0600
Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> wrote:

...

> Some sites do associate the originating IP address with the session data
> to help protect against session hijacking, but this is not overly
> widespread and, even when it is employed, it has issues with proxies
> (which can cause multiple users to appear on a single address) or
> reverse proxies (which can cause a single user to appear on multiple
> addresses), so https really is the only surefire way to prevent it.

And it also won't help against an attacker who can use your IP address,
such as a MITM attacker from the local network segment.

Celejar
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