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Open redirectors: some sanity

Scary Beasts Security

Open redirectors are a contentious issue. Old-school hackers think anyone who thinks they are serious is on drugs. New-school hackers are more evenly divided. I haven't yet seen a public, balanced list of reasons why you should be worrying about other problems. Here it is. For now, I'll concentrate on the central idea that open redirectors permit domain obfuscation and therefore facilitate phishing etc.