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sonofhans
on Jan 13, 2021
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
Auto-incrementing ids makes guessing subsequent or previous items trivial. There was a post here a few weeks ago about it --
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872
slavik81
on Jan 13, 2021
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That doesn't seem like it would matter much on its own. You can pretty easily guess HN item IDs, too. e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244871
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244873
sonofhans
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Of course you’re right — nothing matters on its own. It’s one possible factor in a defense in depth strategy —-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
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