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occamrazor on Nov 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fingerprints can be hacked

It‘s unique (unlike short alphabetic identifiers often used as usernames) and hard to forget (unlike UUID-like user ids).

Engineering-MD on Nov 23, 2021 [–]

*probably unique, but not possible to prove definitely unique.

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