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Benny Pedersen posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:48:49 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On August 9, 2014 3:23:41 PM Ralf <ralf+gentoo@×××××××××××××××××××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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>> Made my day ;-) |
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> are gentoo users more smart then linkedin ? |
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Looking at the links, most of them are to |
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http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect= [long-encoded-link] |
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Looks to me like some spammer figured out the encoding (probably |
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something simple like base64) and that the redirect wasn't linkedin-site- |
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limited, thus allowing them to mask whatever link they wanted and hide |
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behind linkedin's formerly not too terrible reputation, tho it's surely |
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dropping fast due to the spammers now. |
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I've gotten a few of these via email (my lists are via newsgroup via |
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gmane, so entirely separate app used) as well, and the tibdixious name |
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looks familiar, but this is the first I've noticed the redirect-link. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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