This URL doesn't exist unless you create it by right clicking and getting a link. Spoiler: facebook, flickr and more do this too.ĮDIT: I noticed the URL is independent of the account owner: which means that if you try to guess the URL you would hit a significantly larger pool of photos (not only yours but everyone's).ĮDIT2: it is possible that the URLs expire (my guess is they do) so it would mitigate the problem. So as some people have said, I'm not a fan of security through obscurity. So yes they are realistically unguessable, but we all know the strongest a chain can resist is only the strength of it's weakest point.Īnd here the weak point is not the 40+ character string but the user that will let this string hang some place easier to reach. These kind of URLs are unprotected pieces of text that will remain everywhere it can: in your browser cache, in your system, in your mails, chat history, clipboard and so on. But the issue I see is not about how to brute-force the URL but rather how to find it. I get that every URL is not randomly crawlable because of its high entropy.
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