On 3/5/2014 9:40 AM, Neil Schwartzman wrote: > > Yeah. An abused, and abusive redirector. They only deal with abuse > Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00.* They never break links, but put an > interstitial in between the victim and the payload. Gee thanks. >
They do at least deal with it. We reported a pair of links to them at 10am on Wednesday and they were dealt with in under 48h. Maybe not as fast as some would like, but the reporting process was painless. Their warning message has also been stepped up a notch: > Stop - there might be a problem with the requested link > > The link you requested has been identified by bitly as being > potentially problematic. This could be because a bitly user has > reported a problem, a black-list service reported a problem, because > the link has been shortened more than once, or because we have > detected potentially malicious content. This may be a problem > because: > > Some URL-shorteners re-use their links, so bitly can't guarantee the > validity of this link. > > Some URL-shorteners allow their links to be edited, so bitly can't > tell where this link will lead you. > > Spam and malware is very often propagated by exploiting these > loopholes, neither of which bitly allows for. > > The link you requested may contain inappropriate content, or even > spam or malicious code that could be downloaded to your computer > without your consent, or may be a forgery or imitation of another > website, designed to trick users into sharing personal or financial > information.
