NoRedirect Fx extension - ? exploitable gatekeeper
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:59 am
The proliferation of url shortening use by correspondents and many of the feeds I subscribe to makes previewing tinyurl.com and bit.ly one of the bottlenecks in a browser session for me.
I dislike having to hand over usage information to these services, and the roadblock of setting a new cookie at every visit is a slow-down, just to get a preview, so I've looked for an extension to smooth the preview path.
http://code.kliu.org/noredirect/
What kinds of exploits am I opening Fx up to by giving Kai Liu the previewing task?
If any softness, is there anything NS/ABE can help with?
On my dumb reading of it, kliu.org is as straightforward as tinyurl.com and bit.ly for previewing redirection of urls.
I dislike having to hand over usage information to these services, and the roadblock of setting a new cookie at every visit is a slow-down, just to get a preview, so I've looked for an extension to smooth the preview path.
http://code.kliu.org/noredirect/
What kinds of exploits am I opening Fx up to by giving Kai Liu the previewing task?
If any softness, is there anything NS/ABE can help with?
On my dumb reading of it, kliu.org is as straightforward as tinyurl.com and bit.ly for previewing redirection of urls.