{"id":45614,"date":"2014-10-01T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/heavens-to-bit-ly.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:42:40","slug":"heavens-to-bit-ly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/heavens-to-bit-ly.html","title":{"rendered":"Heavens to Bit.ly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one mostly-sussed-out mystery solved. Bit.ly links weren&#39;t working from my company&#39;s network, and it turns out that the company has blocked it because the service was so widely used in phishing attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\">goo.gl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\">t.co<\/a> and other shorterner services all seem to be functioning fine, but presumably phishers will be moving on to those sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a bit annoying, since <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\">bit.ly<\/a> is used in a lot of Twitter links, including my own and some other folk I follow regularly. This is why we can&#39;t have nice (or convenient) things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6065266207229754625\/6065266215280256306'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-6Z7LMh9B8Lg\/VCwnfNX1JTI\/AAAAAAAC2pE\/47bVe5ITqdU\/Batman%2BNo.gif?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MeAhiH2aJGp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, one mostly-sussed-out mystery solved. Bit.ly links weren&#39;t working from my company&#39;s network, and it turns out that the company has blocked it because the service was so widely used in phishing attacks. Of course goo.gl and t.co and other shorterner services all seem to be functioning fine, but presumably phishers will be moving on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/heavens-to-bit-ly.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heavens to Bit.ly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,55,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging-technical","category-computer-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Batman+No.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130425,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/cracking-shortened-urls-has-some-weirdly-scary-results.html","url_meta":{"origin":45614,"position":0},"title":"Cracking shortened URLs has some weirdly scary results","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Apr-16 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"URL shorteners remain a big thing, if only because some sites have crazy-awful URLs that they generate, and URL shorteners make it a lot easier to cut-and-paste those links in.[1]But some researchers have found that when you create such a link, it somehow (through the magic of bit.ly, for example),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19553,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/nicer-twitter-archive-links.html","url_meta":{"origin":45614,"position":1},"title":"Nicer Twitter archive links","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Dec-10 6:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been using Twitter Tools for quite some time to daily archive my Twitter feed to this blog (which, reviewing the last year, is how I handled most stuff that was personal in nature). \u00a0\u00a0That's worked out pretty well, aside from TT's tendency to sometimes be a little ... enthusiastic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging - 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