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Agreed considering I know someone who web scraped a entire dataset because they were selling 2500 sources for $15,000 a year and the API request were sequential ids 0-2500....so just curl 2500 request and call it a day because you didn't hash your ids



By the way, hashing IDs would be a perfect example of security by obscurity if the hash was not salted. You just have to notice that you were given sha256("1234") instead of "1234".




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