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by EamonnMR 2985 days ago
How is someone supposed to determine that one unauthorized thing is hidden among many authorized, similarly named things?
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I guess because the unauthorized thing isn't linked. Giving you the link is like giving you a password... They're both just strings although one is considered to be more secret than the other. Guessing at links is like guessing at passwords: it's overcoming the fact that you weren't provided with the string that gets the server to respond with the stuff.

I don't like this but I think it's how it legally could play out.