Probably a really good automated form of fun to slurp up listing posts, and find all the URL shorteners, and then compare the payload to known malware samples..... ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Hubbard, Dan > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:46 AM > To: 'der Mouse'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] One way or another, it's going to heat up ... > > The list is called FunSec. What fun would it be if you knew where you > were going before you clicked on the link ! Think of the shortened > URL's as little references of "Fun". > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of der Mouse > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] One way or another, it's going to heat up ... > > >> Any software that can't handle a "real" URL is broken, and should be > >> fixed, not accomodated. > > But.. but.. if twitter supported URLs bigger than 140 characters, > > it's[sic] innate nature would be irrevocably changed. > > Perhaps. But, in case you hadn't noticed, this list is not twitter. > > I agree with the stance that meaningful URLs are preferable. Oh, and, > please don't introduce spurious line breaks into them; email[%] can > handle multi-hundred-character lines, and if your user agent isn't > willing to leave text lines unmangled, it is critically broken (for > general-purpose use, at least) and needs to be fixed or replaced. > > [%] Yes, I know "email" is not a single entity. SMTP certainly can, > though, and so can every other even vaguely common email-carrying > protocol I know of. > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [email protected] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > To report this as spam, please forward to [email protected]. Thank > you. > > > Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
