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by chriscappuccio 977 days ago
right, because so many people are typing in the incorrectly shortened URL instead of clicking on the link. something that happens to work nowhere on any page, that's what people are going to rely on to contact CIA. phew, they really dodged a bullet here because putin didn't figure this out first!
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>right, because so many people are typing in the incorrectly shortened URL instead of clicking on the link

it was clickable - and yes they dodged a bullet. the channel could have been perfectly reproduced, made to look real, and then used to intercept western intelligence. there was no manual "typing" of links