Open redirectors of dictionary.com

[Mark McCoy]

Thanks for the notice...

On 3/23/06, Milo Hoffman <hoff.milo at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
>  I am not sure whether you guys are aware of this, I just found some open
> redirectors of reference.com and this can be possibly exploited by spammers.
>
>  http://thesaurus.reference.com/go/http://www.google.com
>  http://dictionary.reference.com/go/http://www.google.com
>  http://www.reference.com/go/http://www.google.com
>
>  The links above happily redirect you to google.com or any other site you
> wish to. A colleague of mine has already written to Reference.com guys about
> this. Would advise you guys to keep a watch on this redirectors :)
>
>  Milo
>
>
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