{"id":231,"date":"2009-06-17T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/?p=231"},"modified":"2009-08-10T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T08:50:05","slug":"url-shortening-services-soon-to-be-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2009\/06\/17\/url-shortening-services-soon-to-be-under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"URL shortening services soon to be under siege?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have already written about my opinion about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2005\/05\/20\/short-urls-future-loss-of-knowlege\/\">problems of URL shortening<\/a> back in 2005. Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/\">Jeff Atwood<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/001276.html\">pointed out<\/a> other issues like commercialization. Today, another threat has come true: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cli.gs\/news\/hack-update\">hackers have manipulated the URLs<\/a> of shortening service <a href=\"http:\/\/cli.gs\/\">cli.gs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the huge amount of information hidden behind such shortened URLs, and given the popularity and number of these links, especially nowadays on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>, these services could see themselves being under permanent siege of hackers\/crackers. Being able to manipulate hundred of thousands if not even more vastly distributed and popular URLs to point to a given site could be used for both, generating (lots of?) ad-revenue, or as a new form of DDoS-attack.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment there seems to be no way around using these services (especially with services like Twitter), but in the medium\/long run a solution has to be found if we don&#8217;t want to lose lots of valuable information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have already written about my opinion about the problems of URL shortening back in 2005. Yesterday, Jeff Atwood pointed out other issues like commercialization. Today, another threat has come true: hackers have manipulated the URLs of shortening service cli.gs. Given the huge amount of information hidden behind such shortened URLs, and given the popularity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2009\/06\/17\/url-shortening-services-soon-to-be-under-siege\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;URL shortening services soon to be under siege?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[228,204,224,227,206],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-internet","tag-advocacy","tag-hacking","tag-internet","tag-security","tag-url-shortening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}