On 4 Jun 2008, at 18:12, Joseph Reeves wrote: > ... > TinyURL on the other hand... Why would anyone ever use that? I never > click on links unless I know where they link to. Here's a plan for > abuse: > > 1: Discover browser 0-day exploit > 2: Put up a gallery of FreeRunner pictures on a website > 3: Point a tinyurl at the gallery > 4: Wait until everyone's linked to it and is clicking it > 5: Change gallery to 0-day exploit > > Or even easier: > > 1: Link to goatse. > > TinyURL takes all the best practice Internet guidlines you try and > teach people and ruins them all. Can't stand it.
TinyURL itself protects you from this. All you do is go to <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>, click on the "enable previews" link and it sets a cookie on your PC. Thereafter, everytime you click on a TinyURL link it shows you first what website the link redirects to, and you then have to click again to make a "manual redirection". Maybe your email client is perfect, and never has a problem with mangled URLs, but for the rest of us TinyURL is very useful. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
