Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Posted Apr 15, 2016 10:14 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)In reply to: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker) by mathstuf
Parent article: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
> Heh. I've always disliked shorteners.
I was going to say that! :) Yeah, they are opaque and very unhelpful when I want to quickly and efficiently determine whether I want to go there at all. You never know where you're going to land. This alone has some security implications...
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