Information Madness

URL Shortening is now a very common and necessary tool for web 2.0 and social networking sites. People just use any kind of url shortening service to share their favorite bookmarks, websites etc. Little do they know where they will be landing too. Now here is one funny url shortening service to scare your twitter followers and Facebook friends off.

ShadyURL service turns even legitimate URLs into something that even the least tech-savvy friend or family member would know better than to click on.

It inserts anything from what appear to be hijacking commands, to profanity and the names of well-known malware. Whomever you send one of these links to is likely to say "holy s**t, I am not going to click on this one....",  even though it's likely to lead to a safe site.

Check out how ShadyURL turns some of the popular sites into..

http://www.google.com ----- http://5z8.info/turkeyporn_m4v5n_peepshow

Orkut.com --- http://5z8.info/titstitstitstits_q1y3p_inject_now

And my friend Amit's blog Labnol.org ---- http://5z8.info/girlsgonewildpart1.wmv_a6l5r_worm

india.gov.in becomes -- http://5z8.info/click-on-this-and-youll-be-taken-to-page-that-will-create-pop-up-windows-until-your-browser-crashes_o8a3h_--INITIATE-CREDIT-CARD-XFER