How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by sonofhans on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:40PM (#25756865)

Auto-incrementing ids makes guessing subsequent or previous items trivial. There was a post here a few weeks ago about it -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244872

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by slavik81 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:07PM (#25757524)

That doesn't seem like it would matter much on its own. You can pretty easily guess HN item IDs, too. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244871 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244873

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Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler by sonofhans on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:15AM (#25758480)

Of course you’re right — nothing matters on its own. It’s one possible factor in a defense in depth strategy —- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)

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