| Subject: | Embarrasing and awkward record numbers |
One thing that prevents me from using this module is that it is possible for it to encode
potentially embarrasing identifiers.
See the encodings for:
420145
16148785
13767342778
It's unlikely that my current application project will get to 13 billion records counting upward
(420,145 is pretty likely though). However, I'd like to have randomly generated record IDs
encoded with something like this. It's unlikely that I'll pick up that particular one, but based on
experience generating confirmation numbers for credit receipts (a completely different project
that didn't use this either) where we did something like this, it is quite likely that one will
generate a dozen or so of these a year and it only takes one offended customer to get
management excited about this sort of thing. My target audience for my current project would
probably become apoplectic.
Anyway, I don't know if that really affects your applications at all, but I'm sure someone on
Hiveminder owns:
http://hiveminder.com/task/FUCK
They may or may not be pleased about that.