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April 15, 2016 05:22 am -04

Shortened URLs make it easy to spy on people

Security researchers have discovered that short URLs are able to be brute-forced, potentially exposing personal data to anyone motivated to look. The issue was found by Martin Georgiev and Vitaly Shmatikov after looking at the abbreviated web address...

Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/15/short-url-weak-privacy/

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