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PINs can be up to 6 digits (at least here in the UK, but I doubt it's country specific), even though the ones they give you by default are only ever 4. So that's only a leak of 1% of them.
It helps, but only temporary. I wouldn't be surprised if all 6 digit PINs will be leaked within a few decades.
The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…
A great example of Teller's observation that "sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
-- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
The fact that the search works impressed me more than anything. Of course, like every great magic trick, it seems so simple once it is explained. For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/ Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even mo…
The full text search is a little confusing because it doesn't actually search them in order, though it appears to at first. And if you click "next" a few times and then "prev" the same number of times, you don't necessarily end up back at the same UUID you were at before. It's a neat-seeming trick though.
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This is the biggest hack since every ATM PIN was leaked: https://pastebin.com/SmJRB8eQ
Holy shit, my PIN is on there. How the hell did that get that?? I was told it was a 1/10,000 chance of someone guessing it.
Seems like some hacker leaked all UUIDs. Check if your UUIDs are part of the leak.
This is the biggest hack since every ATM PIN was leaked: https://pastebin.com/SmJRB8eQ
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The full text search is a little confusing because it doesn't actually search them in order, though it appears to at first. And if you click "next" a few times and then "prev" the same number of times, you don't necessarily end up back at the same UUID you were at before. It's a neat-seeming trick though.
It’s an interesting question whether that could be fixed. I think the answer is Yes. If the author didn’t do any scrambling, and just displayed UUIDs in numeric order, then it’s trivial to enumerate search results in order. Likewise, if you do something like adding a constant mod 16 to each hex digit, you could do the same thing when you generate UUIDs matching a substring. So the question becomes whether you could f…
But I'm gonna try to get a few more crypto-knowledgeable friends to chat with me about this and write up what I learn!
Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it.
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I'm really happy that the trick was magical to you - I was so surprised and delighted when I realized that this was possible, and I wasn't really sure if anyone else would feel the same way! And of course, I'm proud to be providing so much utility here - finally we can find and use UUIDs tailor-fit to our needs
Memorable UUIDs? I think you're on to something here! (Also, dibs on 00000000-0000-4321-abcd-000000000001!)
I'd like to announce my new `npm` package called `get-uuid`. Behind the scenes, it loads `everyuuid.com`, picks a random row number, and returns that UUID.
And look forward to my realising your package doesn't quite do want I want and forking it