Roseman wrote in with a pointer to a techrepublic blog that points out the well known danger to the short URL servcies and their widespread use. The blog also pointed out:
Those measures reduce some of the danges, but by far not every danger of users being used to click on links they receive via twitter, IM, or email. It's still far safer to go to any place you need to log in such as e.g. your bank via a bookmarked link only. Those bookmarks reduce the phishing attempts emailing you funny URLs, the typosquatters etc. Add in a properly workign certificate on the SSL version of the website and you've got some serious defense going as a user as long as you do not accept bad certificates. -- |
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TinyURL has another preview mode that you don't have to do anything ahead of time to use. Just replace the
http://tinyurl.com/FooBar URL with: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FooBar |
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