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by anamax 5254 days ago
> I could be wrong, but the links I've found so far all have 8 characters.

And all US phone numbers have 7 digits. (It's easy enough to figure out the relevant area code.)

Are you claiming that there are no private phone numbers in the US?
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powertower 5254 days ago
You are grasping at unrelated analogies and contexts.
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anamax 5253 days ago
> You are grasping at unrelated analogies and contexts.

You're claiming that 8 character ids are inherently public. Why is the "publicness" of 7 numeral ids an unrelated analogy? After all, the universe of 7 numeral ids is significantly smaller than the set of 8 character ids, so if the former is private (by obscurity) then surely the latter is as well, absent some other factor.

So, what are some of these other factors?

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