[Ipg-smz] The use of URL Shorteners violates security principles

[Tom Henderson]

Fellow Guilders,

I can give you a long list of ow.ly shortened URLs that will give you a 
malware dose the size of Cincinnati.

ONE SINGLE MISTYPED character will send a user into plain hell.

bit.ly, direc.it, and many other URL shorteners are similarly infected.

May I strongly suggest not using them, please. Yes, your URL is probably 
fine, but a single mistyped character can be explosive.

THESE ORGANIZATIONS DO NOT SCAN TARGETS FOR MALWARE or URL target 
integrity.

Please please please reconsider their use and use the long URL. I have 
been using a highly-sandboxed instance to extract the URL and re-post 
them on places like twitter, but this is getting old.

I can't give you the ones with malware, because you'll get infected or 
your own anti-malware software will trigger (hopefully).

I'm not kidding, please reconsider using them and the 
don't-give-a-hootsuite-type apps that generate them.

These organizations do not respond to URL takedown requests.

Thanks,

Tom


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