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by dlitz 4441 days ago
Most developers don't know how to make that distinction, and even savvy ones know better than to take the risk of being wrong.

It's 2014. There are well-funded governments and organized crime attacking our systems. If downstream developers still have to ask the question, "what kind of random numbers does this API provide?", then it's a bug in the platform.