[tentacleuno]

> Visit [redacted], and you’ll be redirected to a subdomain for EU exit hauliers - except the site isn’t there. Instead it’s a WordPress login page. There’s no username field and we feel confident that a brute force attack would be super effective!

> Elsewhere we have the Department for Transport careers page, which sort of does what it says. Clicking on the ‘see all vacancies’ button will redirect you to the civil service jobs site. This isn’t weird in itself, what is weird is that it uses t.co - Twitter’s redirection and domain obscuring tool to do it. Don’t ask us why, we have no idea why they would do this.

This sounds like someone inexperienced with the system is somehow managing it. How can you use a t.co link for... this? I'm surprised this edit got past anyone.

EDIT: Redacted the link just to be on the safe side. It's in the article if anyone's curious.

[pxeger1]

In fact, it's a t.co link that redirects to a bit.ly link that redirects to the actual site!

[londons_explore]

This is probably just someone who copied the link from twitter straight into the governments content management system.

The content on this page isn't written by tech people - it's written by policy experts and other civil servants whose expertise isn't exactly how URL's work...

[wutbrodo]

> The content on this page isn't written by tech people - it's written by policy experts and other civil servants whose expertise isn't exactly how URL's work...

It doesn't just take a lack of expertise: it takes an extra level of apathy about the quality of your work and general incuriousness about the world. They can see the url they're pasting, and the majority of web users have some intuitive sense of the difference between domains: they are, after all, human-readable.

I can imagine the tail of "confused grandparent" stereotypes that are completely blind to the difference between t.co/622ahdvdj and charts.tf.uk.gov, but people that are that technically illiterate should be nowhere near computers in a professional context.