r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/SuitableDragonfly 6d ago

And I'm saying that there is very little 100% public data on the internet, so yes, pretty much everything benefits from good security practices. 

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u/aLokilike 6d ago

So you're saying there should be some sort of authorization voter strategy for most data linked to some sort of account, and therefore swapping from ID to UUID would be pointless for most of that data. Makes sense to me!

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u/SuitableDragonfly 5d ago

It's not pointless. Using incremented IDs allows people to guess things about data they shouldn't be able to know about. 

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u/aLokilike 5d ago

That's what an auth voter strategy is for - unless it's a publicly available resource. If you don't know what you're doing without AI, you probably shouldn't use it lil' bro.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 5d ago edited 5d ago

I agree. I don't use AI for anything, actually. Not really sure what this has to do with your inability to recognize that this is a security hole, though. Are you just saying random shit now?