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The Internet cannot be broken by a single point of failure. That it the way it was designed, and that is its great strength. And that’s why I think it’s a really bad idea to use tools like tinyurl.
Tonight I clicked on a tinyurl link, and got an error page from tinyurl rather than the desired link. It was back up in a couple of minutes, but it set my mind a wandering!
Why are we trusting tinyurl to be the single point through which we pass so much information? Do we know anything about the owners of tinyurl? Do we trust them not to do misuse the data passing through their hands?
A quick google on the subject brought up this extensive discussion on slashdot -
Do Tiny URL Services Weaken Net Architecture?
Stumble it!
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