On Jan 30, 2015 10:16 PM, "Giles Orr" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30 January 2015 at 22:10, William Muriithi > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > | From: Thomas Milne <[email protected]> > > > > | http://gu.com/p/45ba6 > > > > I recommend NOT shortening URLs in a mailing list. Some of us like > > to know where we're going before we follow a link. > > > > +1 > > > > It's such an dangerous thing to do if you think at it from security perspective. I usually just don't bother clicking on it > > When clicked on, the URL expands to > http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jan/30/computing-universe-science-weekly-podcast > . Which is probably the URL you were looking at in your browser. > Rather than copying the URL they provide (I assume the provided the > gu.com URL with a sign saying "copy this!"), use what's in the
Nope. I was not even using a web browser. This is the problem. You are all making assumptions that are invalid. Read it or don't, I couldn't care less about people's paranoid fears. > location bar of your browser, as I'm inclined to agree with William > and Hugh: I like to know where I'm going. I default to all JavaScript > and cross-site scripting turned off - and I _still_ want to know my > target address. :-) > > -- > Giles > http://www.gilesorr.com/ > [email protected] > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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