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

[Esther Schindler]

Are they still a thing? 

I used to use them because they provided some level of tracking click throughs. That went away.

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.

I’m not sure when/why anyone wants to use these any more… even before the security vulnerabilites. 

> On Oct 8, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com> wrote:
> 
> I can give you a long list of ow.ly <http://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.

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