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I also was skeptical. A quick read of the contents of the shortened urls reveals nothing nefarious, however.


Did you read the contents in your standard web browser, like I did? What if it sent back a different set of commands if the user agent matched that of cURL?


Well, you're still free to curl the contents of the URL into a standard text file, and view it with the text editor of your choice (maybe even TextMate!).


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