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

[Cameron Laird]

*That* 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.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM Esther Schindler <esther at bitranch.com>
wrote:

> 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 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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