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<p>Researching security has admittedly made me paranoid. Sadly, I'm
rewarded constantly by my paranoia.</p>
<p>The numbing of the unbelievable number of break-ins, thefts,
state actors, and more, is almost incomprehensible. And yet it's
ignored. The US Gov cyber-czar position is still open. Nineteen US
Gov agencies now have Venn diagram nexus over security. NINETEEN.
And tell me how many credit-protection offerings have you been
doled, THIS YEAR? <br>
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<p>This death-by-a-thousand-cuts is really onerous, and contributes
handily to the extreme stress levels found on the streets and even
backwater warrens today. <br>
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<p>The cure is salving and healing the wounds, one at a time. People
unwittingly have, as you mentioned, learned to put up with
historical misdeed until it's now part of their DNA to ignore the
pains of them. But a preponderance, an accumulation of these pains
is a weight. People don't see it until they're free of them....
like going on a trip to a place where there's no WiFi, no cell,
and perhaps no AM/FM radio. Then they remember, and going back
into the real world is like walking into a cacophony of madness.
There was a quiet time. There was a time when all your info wasn't
for sale on some .onion address. There was a time. <br>
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<p>/preach<br>
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<p>Tom</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/08/2018 01:01 PM, Cameron Laird
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><i>That</i> is a second grad-level thesis:
persistence of technologies whose rationales have long since
vanished. URL shortening has been, for some years, cargo
culting, at best. As Tom documents, it's now hazardous cargo
culting. There are plenty of other examples of widely-employed
cultural elements that only can be understood as historical
vestiges--almost anything under "telco pricing" qualifies.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM Esther Schindler
<<a href="mailto:esther@bitranch.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">esther@bitranch.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Are they still a thing? </div>
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<div>I used to use them because they provided some level of
tracking click throughs. That went away.</div>
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<div>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>
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<div>I’m not sure when/why anyone wants to use these any
more… even before the security vulnerabilites. </div>
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<div>On Oct 8, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Tom Henderson <<a
href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>>
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<div><span>I can give you a long list of<span
class="m_1264330481493519464Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
href="http://ow.ly/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">ow.ly</a><span><span
class="m_1264330481493519464Apple-converted-space"> </span>shortened
URLs that will give you a malware dose the size of
Cincinnati.</span><br>
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<span>ONE SINGLE MISTYPED character will send a user
into plain hell.</span><br>
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Tom Henderson
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