-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Christopher Smith wrote: >> John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >>> Chuck Esterbrook wrote: >>> >>>> This service is pretty neat. Much better than tinyurl.com: >>>> http://decenturl.com/ >>> Never trust these types of services. >>> >> Yeah, but I can tell that it is a setup because decent url lets me know >> that it is a redirect to tinyurl, which is the point of the service. > > You know that it is going to tinyurl. You don't know that it is a setup, > as there are lots of valid links via tinyurl. You can only assume. You > can know that http://goatse.ca/ is a setup, though.
So, you're asking me to believe that someone would send a short URL link that redirects to *another* short URL link site?!?! Come on. Now, there are trickier things you can do to fool people (rd.yahoo.com comes to mind), but in general there seems to me to be a lot of value in using decenturl.com over tinyurl.com. > http://www.decenturl.com/132.239.180.101/tubgirl > > What do you know about that one? Then click. Were you right? I know that it points to an IP address rather than a named host, which means I've got zero reason to trust it. The first part of the "decenturl" is the host you're being redirected to, so my first question is "do I trust that host?", the second part is the title from the page, which also comes back to "do I trust that host?" although it is more about trusting the authors of content for said host. Either way, I don't trust that link. - --Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHJ8SsOagjPOywMBARAuO0AJ4sVWLRm+nDgSMsOvFUntVqxQ+OlACgnCi+ jiuKLBaN48/RfcGioLHpP4E= =r9+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
