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Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
- jmorr 17y agoPointless and bizarre, and therefore cool.
- tibbon 17y agoI almost want to start sending these links to people at work- just to see what they do. If they actually click on them, then that's bad. If I could track clickthroughs like you can with Bit.ly (you could always just sketchify a Bit.ly link) then you could do some security testing to see who will click on anything.
- mortenjorck 17y agoAh, but with URL shorteners, people are already clicking on anything! Which I'm guessing is the point to this whole exercise. That said, the reason we've come to tolerate shorteners is that there's an implicit network of trust in the way they're used on Twitter. We trust that someone we follow isn't going to put a goatse behind that bit.ly because we know enough about them to believe they wouldn't (or at least we don't think they'd risk a massive loss of followers for it). So by the same reasoning, if you send a ShadyURL to a co-worker, if they know you, they probably trust you won't be sending them anything malicious. Though I suppose the smart thing for a recipient to do would be to double-check with you that you sent the right link.
- eogas 17y agoThis is the best thing I've seen all day: http://5z8.info/stalin-will-rise-again_e9m8_ip-stealer http://5z8.info/stalin-will-rise-again_e9m8_ip-stealer
- kajecounterhack 17y agohttp://5z8.info/smut_s0s8_back-to-africa http://5z8.info/smut_s0s8_back-to-africa is my link both salacious AND racist?
- maukdaddy 17y agoThey need sliders for this type of thing. I'd like to dial-up the salaciousness and racism and dial-down the terrorism and felonious words.
- steverb 17y agoNice. I got an exe! http://5z8.info/guns_m4r4_worm.exe http://5z8.info/guns_m4r4_worm.exe
- eogas 17y agoCongrats!
- NathanKP 17y agoNothing like the one I got: http://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_s4a9_b00bs http://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_s4a9_b00bs Now that is scary.
- wmf 17y agoIs that some sort of viral promotion for 24?
- amalcon 17y agoShortened URLs are already suspicious and frightening, but these are amusing at the same time!
- tmcw 17y agoThis is what people are using three-letter domains for? Well, I guess it's a .info, so...
- nico 17y agoI would love a Shady URL bookmarklet!
- dasil003 17y agoTitle could also be: Don't just shorten your URL, make it longer
- aohtsab 17y agodickensurl.com
- malkia 17y agoThat's perfect for Rick Rollin!
- danskil 17y agoThere are no measures to the amount of joy this tool has given me in the past five minutes. Thank you!
- nahumfarchi 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/ turns to http://5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_s2t1_-49exploit-begin-- http://5z8.info/how-to-build-a-bomb_s2t1_-49exploit-begin-- turns to http://5z8.info/startdownload_x5g2_blackmarket http://5z8.info/startdownload_x5g2_blackmarket turns to http://5z8.info/molotovcocktail_m2x9_horse-slaughter.. http://5z8.info/molotovcocktail_m2x9_horse-slaughter... i wonder if this ever goes full circle?
- GavinB 17y agoThat's funny, http://ycombinator.com/ http://ycombinator.com/ turned into http://5z8.info/great_business_opportuniy_b9m8_make-millions-working-from-home http://5z8.info/great_business_opportuniy_b9m8_make-millions...
- teamfresh 17y agohttp://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_h4r1_inject_worm http://5z8.info/enriched-uranium-supply_h4r1_inject_worm go on click on it I dare you!!
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- aohtsab 17y agohttp://5z8.info/dogporn_n3p6_bomb-plans http://5z8.info/dogporn_n3p6_bomb-plans My happiness is confused. =) This is the best and worst thing I've seen all day.