Re: One way or another, it's going to heat up ...

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Probably a really good automated form of fun to slurp up listing posts,
and find all the URL shorteners, and then compare the payload to known
malware samples..... ;-)



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> On Behalf Of Hubbard, Dan
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:46 AM
> To: 'der Mouse'; funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] One way or another, it's going to heat up ...
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> The list is called FunSec. What fun would it be if you knew where you
> were going before you clicked on the link ! Think of the shortened
> URL's as little references of "Fun".
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [funsec] One way or another, it's going to heat up ...
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> > > Any software that can't handle a "real" URL is broken, and should
be
> > > fixed, not accomodated.
> > But.. but.. if twitter supported URLs bigger than 140 characters,
> > it's[sic] innate nature would be irrevocably changed.
>
> Perhaps.  But, in case you hadn't noticed, this list is not twitter.
>
> I agree with the stance that meaningful URLs are preferable.  Oh, and,
> please don't introduce spurious line breaks into them; email[%] can
> handle multi-hundred-character lines, and if your user agent isn't
> willing to leave text lines unmangled, it is critically broken (for
> general-purpose use, at least) and needs to be fixed or replaced.
>
> [%] Yes, I know "email" is not a single entity.  SMTP certainly can,
> though, and so can every other even vaguely common email-carrying
> protocol I know of.
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