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by Grimburger 1289 days ago
> ULID leaks information about when the user was created

How often is this really a bad thing? Are you worried about someone enumerating the entire space of possible ULIDs for every millisecond without ever rate-limiting them? Not many people are building anonymous, privacy-first websites and there's plenty of other ways to determine when a user first started using the site regardless.

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It depends on the industry.

It's not about guessing user IDs, but about deducting some useful information about them.

For example if an attacker may deduct wether an employee in a company a senior or a new one, and will know when exactly they joined the company.

> an attacker may deduct wether an employee in a company a senior or a new one

I'd probably start with LinkedIn first :)