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Is there anyway to game unique link verifications?  Like when you get sent a link of the form https:/........com/UID=TYYN04001 How would one change the digits to reproduce another working link?

21st November 2013

My answer to Is there anyway to game unique link verifications?  Like when you get sent a link of the form https:/........com/UID=TYYN04001 How would one change the digits to reproduce another working link? on Quora

Not if they’ve been implemented correctly.

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