How can I change my site so that it uses random identifiers, rather than sequential ones?
Thanks!
How can I change my site so that it uses random identifiers, rather than sequential ones?
Thanks!
In any case, regardless of how it gets done, the Oxwall identification system must be changed urgently.
Also, before it gets suggested, this is a serious security flaw, so should not need to go through the user voice process.
smith256 - sequential numbering is used everywhere within the Oxwall URL system.
With a very simple script, you can scrape all the images from a site doing that, for example. If content was marked as private, it would be easy to find it without permission using this method.
Using the method that YouTube employ - a pool of randomly assigned IDs - prevents this.
On a related note, I would like to retract my suggestion about using a smaller pool of IDs. A larger pool of IDs could provide more protection from iterative scraping.