[liberationtech] Bitly Safety (was Stanford Bitly Enterprise Account)

[Nick Daly]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com> wrote:
> All URL shorteners have the problem of not being transparent with
> destination. The risk of this is amplified on places like Twitter,
> where the shortened version can be copied and pasted numerous times.
>
> So I would recommend using a site like unshorten.it (or bit.ly itself)
> to actually see where a link leads.

Someone should register long.er for stretching links :)