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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by drew-y on Monday April 16, 2018 @06:47PM (#16853595)
If the information is supposed to be private wouldn't you want to use token based auth or something similar? I wouldn't feel comfortable exposing information publicly even if it was behind a UUID.
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by politician on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:30AM (#16855473)
Sure, but remember the lowest-bid contractor here used an integer. Baby steps.
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