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Hiding the IDs doesn't have to be a security feature at all. Maybe they just didn't want to publicly show how many students they've got, simply for marketing re
by ivanhoe 12y ago
Hiding the IDs doesn't have to be a security feature at all. Maybe they just didn't want to publicly show how many students they've got, simply for marketing reasons?
- allochthon 12y agoThere is a benefit in having an id used in APIs that is difficult to iterate through sequentially or otherwise anticipate. I'm guessing the "internal" id is a surrogate key in a database, which normally wouldn't be used in other contexts.