Shortened URLs

[Bigaldoc]

Since this subject was talked about a little here recently, there's an interesting article by Fred Langa in this "special edition" of the Windows Secrets ezine: Avoid the security risk of shortened URLs

[HansV]

Useful tips, thanks!

[wasbit]

Since this subject was talked about a little here recently, there's an interesting article by Fred Langa in this "special edition" of the Windows Secrets ezine: Avoid the security risk of shortened URLs

Useful tips, thanks!

Agreed.

I think he said he got his information from Joshua Long (JoshMeister)

- http://security.thejoshmeister.com/2009 ... nyurl.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Regards
wasbit

[Bigaldoc]

I think he said he got his information from Joshua Long (JoshMeister)

Now that fella sounds like a reputable "authority" on the subject - he's working on his doctorate of business, IT security!

[jonwallace]

Using Opera (the beta of 11 that I mentioned over in the other browsers forum), hovering the mouse over the url gives the full address in the status bar.

[Later] : OOPS, I seem to be mistaken about that...

[jonwallace]

Using Opera (the beta of 11 that I mentioned over in the other browsers forum), hovering the mouse over the url gives the full address in the status bar.

[Later] : OOPS, I seem to be mistaken about that...

OK, now I'm using Opera 11 with the Unshorten extension which, uhm, unshortens extensions, and can replicate the behaviour that I thought was default above, or replace the URL inline with the real one. You choose.

Opera is available here and unshorten can be found here.