Id is already hashed per-app from facebook's side | Hacker News

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		cblconfederate on Nov 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You might not need to store plaintext email addres... Id is already hashed per-app from facebook's side

nulbyte on Nov 2, 2020 [–]

The article points out that this doesn't maintain privacy:

> I discovered that, even though the ID was unique to my FB-app, it was still possible to go to facebook.com/{id} and be redirected to the user’s FB-profile.

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