Talk

A URL Shortened By Any Other Name

Recon Village @ DEF CON 27 • 9th, 10th and 11th August 2019

Abstract

URL Shorteners are a great convenience for information sharing where the link needs to be memorizable or fit in a small text limit. Ever wonder where all of it leads? What if someone were to scrape all of the links shared on a particular URL Shortening service? What would we find? PII? Sensitive Map data? Corporate files? Let's find out!

Speaker

Master Chen

Student of LIfe. Teacher of Shaolin.

MasterChen is a seasoned presenter who explores where technology meets psychology. In recent years, his focus has been on cyber stalking and anti-stalking. He has also been published in "2600: The Hacker Quarterly". Phone phreaking, social engineering, and systems automation are his concentrations.

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