Comment Re:Not really surprising. (Score 5, Funny) 473
It's reasons like this I refuse to install any closed source binaries - besides the inbound and outbound firewall...
No you don't, they actually resolve the target links, at least for the common URL shortener services.
Well then, this gives one the opportunity to DDoS either URL shorteners or MSN servers. Imagine a 1,000,000+ shortened URLs within 5 minutes - make a HEAD request for each, now that's a flood!
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