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My guess is that they used this as a security through obscurity [0]. They hoped that nobody will be able to reverse back the alphabet if they don't get their ha
by doh 7y ago
My guess is that they used this as a security through obscurity [0]. They hoped that nobody will be able to reverse back the alphabet if they don't get their hands on real IDs. Because we [1] crawl every video/audio site, we had all the links for vine. I just took 1,000 consequential IDs (based on creation time) and then worked backwards on the alphabet. Took maybe 10 minutes to write the code.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
[1] https://pex.com https://pex.com
- trenning 7y agoSince it's not listed on the site, what are the costs for the services pex offers?
- doh 7y agoDepends on the service. We are currently closed to only certain customers, although our attribution engine [0] is completely free to _all_ rightsholders. [0] https://blog.pex.com/introducing-the-attribution-engine-19eccd3441a9 https://blog.pex.com/introducing-the-attribution-engine-19ec...