Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Posted Apr 15, 2016 19:33 UTC (Fri) by cwitty (guest, #4600)In reply to: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker) by NAR
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"What I don't quite understand is how do they know who created that map?"
If you're talking about the geocacher map, the researchers created the map as a summary of hundreds of sets of driving directions, all starting at one particular residential address. So it seems reasonable to assume that the person who requested all of those driving directions lives at that address.