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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by morpheuskafka on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:23PM (#20006359)
I don't think it's really fair to call it security by obscurity. The UUIDs have far more entropy than 99.9% of user passwords protecting them.
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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million... by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:16PM (#20006718)
Not if they are type 1 UUIDs, which is the default on MySQL.
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