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Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2016 | Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services by ajdlinux | 495 | 165 |
