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Re: How long is your rack?
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:00:51 +1000
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:37:37AM -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
more likely a 'shortened' url. how anyone can click those is beyond me.I'm curious what your objection is.i have no assurance that a shortened url does not lead to a malicious site. also your privacy issue, but that is secondary.
Given the rate of publicised defacements of all manner of sites (and that injecting malware into a page is the exact same thing as a clear defacement, from an execution point of view), a long URL gives you no greater assurance of protection from malice. - Matt (Fellow hater of URL-shortening services) -- "I'm sorry they changed it back. The freedom-fries thing was a proclamation to the world that we are indeed ruled by fools and madmen, but it had the virtue of not requiring mass numbers of people to be killed in order to make the point." -- Brad Ferguson
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- Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?, (continued)
- Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet? Jeffrey S. Young (Aug 12)
- Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet? Leo Bicknell (Aug 14)
- How long is your rack? Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) (Aug 14)
- Re: How long is your rack? Joe Greco (Aug 14)
- Re: How long is your rack? Charles N Wyble (Aug 14)
- Re: How long is your rack? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Leo Bicknell (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Steven Bellovin (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Dave CROCKER (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Matthew Palmer (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? David Miller (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Greg Ihnen (Aug 15)
- Infection vectors Charles N Wyble (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 15)
- Re: How long is your rack? Charles N Wyble (Aug 14)
- IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?) Tim Wilde (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?) Paul Graydon (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?) Owen DeLong (Aug 14)
- Re: IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?) Tim Wilde (Aug 15)
- Re: IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?) Owen DeLong (Aug 15)