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by Dylan16807 1596 days ago
Any entropy at all. Supposedly the old ones were an encrypted counter, so if that key had gotten loose it would have been bad.
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The key did get loose. Thousands of engineers had access to it and it showed up on dark corners of the internet for sale. A bunch of my unlisted videos got more view counts than they ought to have had, so I think abuse of it was pretty widespread.