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Recently there has been a lot of issue with Tweeter and even Facebook and those pesky shorten urls. You have seen them those links like http://tinyurl.com/something. These were created to help those posting on tweeter, because of the 160 or so character restrictions. This allows you to post a link to a site that was long without eating up the word limit. This also masked the end URL. Well of course hackers and all type of unscrupulous people started to take advantage of this. Well do I have a fix for you. For two easy payments of 9.99, you will get all of this..Bob take it away. No really, If you have Firefox you can simply add in a new add-on extension. I have been personally using these URL un-shorteners.  You simply install it, then move your mouse over the link and it expands it for you. You can even click on the expanded link directly. Now, this will not stop you for clicking the link, but at least you can see where the end point is. From there you can use your best judgment on whether to actually go there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140, DeTiny URL Expander 1.2.1

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10181, UntinyFox 2.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10297, bit.ly preview 1.264 

 

I am not one to cry chicken little that the sky is falling but people need to stop and take warning about what they post on the social networking sites like   MySpace(people still use that one?) as well as Tweeter and Facebook. At the very least limit correctly those that can see your post, tweets etc… I have read two funny articles in the past few weeks about a gut that tweeted he was going on vacation and didn’t secure all his personal information. Guess what!, he got robbed while he was away. Read here.  Now I just read that the newly appointed head of Britain’s Secret Service (MI6) had to step down because his wife posted vacation pictures of them as well as didn’t limited who could see the posts and who her friends were. Everyone in the world knew this guys friends and some higher level stuff. Big security breach. Read here. People wise up! Take heed now! Just my two and a half cents!!.

 

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