Correct - because the actual site url is hidden, it's easy to fool people
into going to a site they normally wouldn't have went to.
On 1/3/06, Stephen Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:00:26 -0500, Diane Poremsky wrote:
>
> >Tinyurl is a good way to spread the wmf exploit.
>
> Diane, is this because clicking on the URL contraction/redirection takes a
> user
> where they would rather not be? I recall a number of the suspected sites
> end in
> *.biz so, I suppose, this could be disguised by URL redirection. btw, I
> noticed, in
> writing something recently for print/paper, that Steve Gibson's site
> doesn't work
> with TinyURL, which makes good sense if redirection is a security risk.
>
>
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> Diane Poremsky
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