<div dir="ltr">Great story for someone on the list who does security stories. <ahem></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 12:05 PM Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Fellow Guilders,<br>
<br>
I can give you a long list of <a href="http://ow.ly" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ow.ly</a> shortened URLs that will give you a <br>
malware dose the size of Cincinnati.<br>
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ONE SINGLE MISTYPED character will send a user into plain hell.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://bit.ly" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly</a>, <a href="http://direc.it" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">direc.it</a>, and many other URL shorteners are similarly infected.<br>
<br>
May I strongly suggest not using them, please. Yes, your URL is probably <br>
fine, but a single mistyped character can be explosive.<br>
<br>
THESE ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT SCAN TARGETS FOR MALWARE or URL target <br>
integrity.<br>
<br>
Please please please reconsider their use and use the long URL. I have <br>
been using a highly-sandboxed instance to extract the URL and re-post <br>
them on places like twitter, but this is getting old.<br>
<br>
I can't give you the ones with malware, because you'll get infected or <br>
your own anti-malware software will trigger (hopefully).<br>
<br>
I'm not kidding, please reconsider using them and the <br>
don't-give-a-hootsuite-type apps that generate them.<br>
<br>
These organizations do not respond to URL takedown requests.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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</blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dana Blankenhorn<div><a href="http://www.danablankenhorn.com">http://www.danablankenhorn.com</a></div><div><a href="http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV">http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/#.WJzBOzsrLIV</a><br></div></div></div>