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I seem to remember reading about an earlier attempt to do this that brought down twitter; The twitter server was attempting to follow the tweet chain and didn't
by GauntletWizard 4y ago
I seem to remember reading about an earlier attempt to do this that brought down twitter; The twitter server was attempting to follow the tweet chain and didn't have mitigations for this. Anyone have that link?
Object ID Prediction is a classic class of security attack, but thankfully with their data model it doesn't much matter.
- vecter 4y agoA twitter employee talked about that in the thread: https://twitter.com/noradio/status/1333558513314922497 https://twitter.com/noradio/status/1333558513314922497
- GauntletWizard 4y agoYep, and here's the one I was thinking of: http://twitter.com/spoonhenge/status/2878871344 http://twitter.com/spoonhenge/status/2878871344
- saryant 4y agoIt does matter, as it could be used to figure out user growth. Tweets and users now use snowflake IDs which provide increasing but non-sequential IDs which also encode creation time.