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From: helge.oldach at atosorigin.com (Helge Oldach)
Subject: TinyURL

Joel R. Helgeson:
>Who cares about credit card numbers, I'm looking for privileged access to
>sites.  Consider the following:
>
>People use this service as an attempt to obfuscate the usernames and
>passwords to protected websites and ftp servers that they email out.  I'm
>finding a lot of urls that read like:
>http://username:password@....protectedsite.com/members
>ftp://user:pass@....securedftp.com/private/sourcecode
>
>Looks like they wanted to get someone into their site, but didn't want to
>actually 'give' the username and password out, so they tinyurl'ed it.
>
>This means they've posted their username and password to the entire web!!

So what is your point? Are you trying to prevent people from doing
stupid things like posting their credentials to the web?

I must say I find the fuzz about this "service" rather strange. This
topic is not related to security, but simply to stupidity.

You should better ask tinyurl to place a warning on their site. I
suggest "Not suitable for children under 3 years".

Helge