We run this security-sensitive service but only keep the logs for 7 days😔

Obviously hindsight is 20/20, but a good example on why at companies I always want as much log retention as possible.

@stacksmashing I like to link people this if they think it's too difficult to brute-force a short hash prefix lol https://github.com/zegl/extremely-linear

@stacksmashing @Lyude isn't finding truncated SHA-256 hash collisions literally how bitcoin mining works

@stacksmashing this deserves a German reply that cannot be accurately translated: "Heul doch!"

@stacksmashing @leyrer ... and l think it's beautiful

@stacksmashing that Apple-mentality: “They didn’t advertise that as a feature, it must be impossible”. I’m joking, but it is kinda what you get. A product that does everything it’s meant to do well (As long as support lasts), but nothing extra.