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[MIGRATED TO DIFFERENT INSTANCE CHECK PIN POST] Internet is Beautiful

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

One use is in URL identifiers. If my account number is 47, for example, I could reasonably guess that accounts 1-46 exist and potentially look at other customers' data.

But if it uses a UUID instead then it's a lot harder to do that.