irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to Internet is Beautiful@lemm.eeEnglish · 12 days agoEvery UUIDeveryuuid.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down12
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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoOne 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.
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.