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by javaunsafe2019 185 days ago
So We make things hard in the backend because of leaky abstractions? Doesn't make sense imo.
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Decades of security vulnerabilities and compromises because of sequential/guessable PKs is (only!) part of the reason we're here. Miss an authorization check anywhere in the application and you're spoon-feeding entire tables to anyone with the inclination to ask for it.