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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)
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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not malware, I promise: https://c1ic.link/root_t26Om0_login.scr

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Yep. That's terrifying.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 9 points 1 month ago

I was very disappointed it was not a rickroll.

Now I've got this root login screensaver asking me for admin privileges though, huh, weird...

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

Seeing a .scr extension just made me feel like the 90s were actually more than 2 decades away

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

"shortener" :)