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The URL Shortener Subcommittee

Posted byGarrick van Buren June 9, 2011

“We believe that [URL shorteners] pose a serious threat to the internet’s integrity. If one of them dies, gets hacked or sells out, millions of links will stop working. Thus we preemptively release backups, because URL shorteners are too busy to make backups themselves.”

Posted byGarrick van BurenJune 9, 2011Posted inGeneral

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