Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google’s Shortened URLs to Spy on People

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For anyone with minimalist tastes or an inability to use copy-paste keyboard shortcuts, URL shorteners may seem like a perfectly helpful convenience. Unfortunately, the same tools that turn long web addresses into a few characters also offer the same conveniences to hackers—including any of them motivated enough to try millions of shortened URLs until they hit on the one you thought was private.

Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google’s Shortened URLs to Spy on People | WIRED