<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Are they still a thing? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I used to use them because they provided some level of tracking click throughs. That went away.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also used to use them back when Twitter counted all the characters in a URL as part of its 140. That went away too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure when/why anyone wants to use these any more… even before the security vulnerabilites. </div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 8, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com" class="">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I can give you a long list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://ow.ly/" style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">ow.ly</a><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shortened URLs that will give you a malware dose the size of Cincinnati.</span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ONE SINGLE MISTYPED character will send a user into plain hell.</span><br style="font-family: GoudyOldStyleT-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>