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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by 0xf005ba11 on Friday April 15, 2016 @07:32PM (#11508411)
Instead of trying to make brute force more costly, couldn't these services make it impossible, by forcing the fulfilment of a CAPTCHA when trying to expand/follow a shortened URL?
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