This is kind of how I've always built applications - the standard ID is viewable to admins, but every public facing utilisation is a random string (with a uniqu

This is kind of how I've always built applications - the standard ID is viewable to admins, but every public facing utilisation is a random string (with a uniqueness validator). Access to resources is either locked down by an authorisation policy, or sometimes you need open resources (like a public share link), in which case, security through obscurity (with perhaps a secondary string on the record acting as an additional key for non-logged in users).