full-disclosure - Re: Surge in Skype Spam activity

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:02:06 +1300
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Surge in Skype Spam activity

dramacrat wrote:

> hmmmm, shall I click a tinyurl coming from a f-d poster?
> 
> n/n, pick one
> 
> this is email, not twitter. if you're sharing a legitimate link, there's no
> reason not to directly link to it.

Whilst I agree entirely with these sentiments, at least tinyurl has a 
(I thought well-known) "preview" option that does not require a browser 
plugin -- simply prefix the tinyurl.com domain name with the "preview" 
sub-domain and instead of auto-redirecting you tinyurl will tell you 
the redirection URL.

Also, is using a commandline URL grabber like curl or wget to see the 
301 redirect terget really that difficult for a 1337 F-D hax0r such as 
yourself?

FWIW, the target URL is:

   http://securityextension.com/securitylab

which really doesn't seem worth the effort of shortening...

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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