Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]
+++ Raj Mathur [21/05/08 00:09 +0530]: Please don't post tinyurls to lists. A number of people (including me) treat all tinyurls as suspect, for a number of reasons: - You can't make an informed decision on whether to go to the site or not. Context should make it clear. Clicking on tinyurl links without context might be risky though. - A malicious user could post a tinyurl to a malware/infection URL. If you have an issue with tinyurl security, you really should enable the preview option at tinyurl.com. That way tinyurl will never redirect you without showing the url first and you accepting to be redirected nevertheless. In general, best to post the complete URL. Long URLs are often broken in mails in this list(and a pain to reconstruct later), and I am personally quite ok with tinyurl(and its security). But yes, people who have not setup preview mode in tinyurl may be at risk. In any case, it would be polite to atleast mention the domain name of the link where tinyurl will redirect you to (ala slashdot). - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French guys consolidated a guide for this http://tinyurl.com/5ltdvl Please don't post tinyurls to lists. A number of people (including me) treat all tinyurls as suspect, for a number of reasons: snip - A malicious user could post a tinyurl to a malware/infection URL. I thought people on a Linux mailing list would largely be immune to this! -- Anupam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French guys consolidated a guide for this http://tinyurl.com/5ltdvl Please don't post tinyurls to lists. A number of people (including me) treat all tinyurls as suspect, for a number of reasons: snip - A malicious user could post a tinyurl to a malware/infection URL. I thought people on a Linux mailing list would largely be immune to this! Thats because you think everybody on the list uses Linux while checking their mails.. But this may not be the case! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
