Preview tinyurl com4/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The majority of the books that were targeted do not even have a kiss in them. My books were removed because they were, according to the sole parent who made the challenge, “adult romance that should not be on school shelves.” It is worth noting I do not write adult romance. The 92 books fell into three categories: those with mature content, those written by BIPOC authors, and those written by LGBTQ authors. In Martin Country School District, 92 books were pulled from the school library shelves. But this week, something truly egregious happened. As sad as it seems, I was getting used to the emails from PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman telling me that yet again, my novel was under attack. In the past six months, my books have been banned dozens of times in dozens of school districts. We were testing it out for the first time when the notification popped on my computer screen: about yet another parent complaining that my novel was inappropriate for high school students. The director was determined to physically set a prop book on fire each night because of how shocking and powerful it was to watch. I was in the U.K., in rehearsals for a musical I’d co-written based on Markus Zusak’s novel The Book Thief, which is set in Nazi Germany. I think it would be great to have others offer it also.The seventh time I learned that my novel Nineteen Minutes was being banned in a school district, I was watching a book burning. TinyURL is currently the only shortening service I know that offers this. The one thing that surprises me about Preview though is how many people, even in the security community, are unaware of this functionality, of how this can be a safe alternative. long as you can trust the URL shortening service, preview mode eliminates many of the risks associated with URL shortening. Instead this takes you to a landing page that gives you preview of where you will ultimately go. By prepending 'preview' to a TinyURL, the service does not send you directly to the destination website. ![]() The solution we have adopted is preview mode. At the same time we have to respect the security risks that come along with that (this is a security awareness newsletter after all). This poses a problem for the OUCH! team, as we use URL shortening so long URL's can fit in our newsletters. As a result, some organizations teach their employees not to trust shortened URLs, or simply block them at their network gateway. ![]() security risk with a shortened URL is you cannot tell where you are going when you click the link, you have to trust the sender. Below is an example using the URL for this blog entry: /security-awareness-training/blog/secure-options-url-shorteninginto this shortened URL: This is very useful for when you need a short URLs, such as for Twitter, when you have to read a URL over the phone, or for a. As most of you know, URL shortening is when you use a service such as bit.ly or to take a very long URL and condense it into a very short URL. One of the recent lessons I learned was on URL shortening. These interactions not only get me thinking, but in the long run they help us produce a better newsletter. ![]() One of the things I love about the OUCH! security awareness newsletter is the community feedback we get, such as questions on why we picked a certain topic, why we focused on the lessons we did or suggestions on how to improve the overall format. Immediately apply the skills and techniques learned in SANS courses, ranges, and summits ![]()
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