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throwaway8486k
2y ago
You're right. The urls were public to be shared (think of marketing material / ecommerce), so there was not a security incident. But it did give our competitor free highly qualified leads that they could use to poach customers. T
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throwaway8486k
2y ago
> I'm not saying it's a bad practice, the opposite actually I'm sorry that I didn't make that more clear. I saw that you mentioned it as a best practice and are aware of the advantages. It's just that there are s
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throwaway8486k
2y ago
Security by obscurity makes it more difficult for bad actors as an additional layer that they need to break. I don't see a reason why that's a bad thing and doesn't take a lot of effort to implement in this case. I have been