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It can still leak information, like if a companies customers have sequential id's and your id is 590 then it is reasonable to assume that the company has had ar
by SahAssar 5y ago
It can still leak information, like if a companies customers have sequential id's and your id is 590 then it is reasonable to assume that the company has had around 500-600 customers.
It is usually not something to worry about, but in some cases you want to avoid leaking that info.
- Symbiote 5y agoThe German Tank Problem is one example of this. The Allies estimated how many tanks Germany was producing based on the serial numbers, and this gave a closer result compared to other intelligence sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
- laurent92 5y agoOr Jira tickets. When you submit two support cases in a few days and the number increased by 20 while the company is still a startup, you are pretty sure to have no decent answer.
- combatentropy 5y agoSo is that a bug or a feature ;)