[27329] in bugtraq
Re: Filters on url shortening services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Oct 7 16:53:53 2002
To: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org>
From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 21:38:51 +0200
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Hodgson's message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:36:55 +0100")
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Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> writes:
> The second is that anyone can create any url, and the user knows very
> little about what they are clicking on.
And this differs in what way from the current state of affairs on the
rest of the net?
Anybody is free to start his own shortcut service. Certainly, you
don't want to take aways this freedom!
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