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Do Tiny URL Services Weaken Net Architecture?
Indus Khaitan writes "Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com. However, now I see a lot of people using it on their regular webpages. This could be a big problem if billions of different links are unreachable at a given time. What if a service starts sending a pop-up ad along with the redirect. What if the masked target links to a page with an exploit instead of linking to the new photos of Jessica Alba. Are services like tinyurl, urltea etc. taking the WWW towards a single point of failure? Is it a huge step backward? Or I'm just crying wolf here?"
Why do you fucking FireFags have to turn every discussion into one about Firefox? We know you like to sodomise yourselves with your web browser, no need to keep harping on about it.
Because nobody whose anybody uses twitter.
Who are all these "twitter shills" anyways? Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. the only one I hear about using these are people under 12 years old.
Exactly. Ten years ago people who used the internet could tell their ass from their elbow, and an obvious (and hilarious) troll like STR would never have fooled anybody. Nowadays any retard who can afford the entrance fee can get online and fall for obvious shit like this, hook like and sinker. On the other hand, dickheads like you who like to make ominous statements about "how far society has slid since the good old days" have always been around, internet or not.
Boo fucking hoo, seriously. So the worst that could happen is someone could decide to make a buck or two, and people stop using it. Quick, sound the Internet alarms. Geeks, to your keyboards! We'll need your full power of ineffectual whining to stop this threat before it crosses from wild imagination to reality.
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