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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by Cthulhu_ on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:03AM (#25730712)
Nice, I hadn't heard that one. I did hear that they always ended encoded messages with "heil hitler", giving the decoders a solid lead and verification that the key used was correct.

On that note, using UUIDs would be more 'secure' than auto incremented numbers, wouldn't it? I don't like how much space they take up in my URLs though.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by jsight on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:34AM (#25731301)
> On that note, using UUIDs would be more 'secure' than auto incremented numbers, wouldn't it? I don't like how much space they take up in my URLs though.

Or just assign them in blocks that are out of order. Any intelligence gained from the leakage of such blocks would be misleading. Misleading is often even better than non-existent.

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Re:70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked ... by LargeWu on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:11AM (#25730852)
That, and always beginning them with a weather report (at least for U-Boats).
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