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Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents by Joeri on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:31AM (#10971969)
The solution should have been to append a random string to the hotfix number. Still sorts the same way, but unguessable.
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Re:CIA declassifies hundreds of UFO documents by jtolmar on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:45AM (#10972005)
That doesn't help anything. You can't guess the next hotfix number, but you can still tell what order they were in and, after seeing a few examples to figure out how long the non-random part is, tell how many were skipped.
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