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A comment on Making Your Own URL Shortener. Parent comment

Re:Making Your Own URL Shortener by smt88 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @10:14AM (#14382451)
There's an additional security issue when a URL shortener is abandoned and malware groups pick up the domain.
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Re:Making Your Own URL Shortener by takno on Saturday May 20, 2017 @11:10AM (#14382719)
If the shortener is tied to a site than why is that risk any greater than the risk of the site itself being abandoned?
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