[–] lrossi 5y ago ↗ Given the recent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728175 I was wondering how hard it would be to predict or brute force scan YouTube video ids, to find private ones.It turns out that they are using 64-bit integers as IDs, allocated in some unspecified order, so scanning all of them is not practical.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 7.8 ms ] threadIt turns out that they are using 64-bit integers as IDs, allocated in some unspecified order, so scanning all of them is not practical.