This conversation is making the rounds of the IT security blogs and publications and brings up an interesting debate.  Is convenience worth a lack of security?  This is a familiar debate in IT security circles and one that quite often rears its head when social media is in the conversation.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/18/google-and-microsofts-shortened-urls-make-it-easy-to-spy-on-people/