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by OskarS 719 days ago
This is a very weird thread: half the people are arguing that having these timestamps is not a realistic security problem at all, and the other half is arguing that any fix to it has to have Fort Knox level security policies.

It seems to me: the actual value of knowing these ids/timestamps to a hacker is tiny, but it's not nothing (German tank problem and all that). Like, if a hacker was able to decode the timestamps, it's not ideal, but it's not like a catastrophe either (especially given that half the people in this thread thinks it has no security value at all). Given that threat model, a simple scheme like I suggested seems fine to me.