If the server is using a standard path prefix and a standard file layout and is using standard file names it isn't that difficult to find the location of a media file and then from there it would be easier to find bore files, assuming the paths are consistent.
But even for low entropy strings, long strings are difficult to brute force, and rainbow tables are useless for this use case.
It's not that challenging if you are looking for specific media files, but if you wanted to enumerate the files on a server it's basically impossible.
If the ID is the MD5 of the path, rainbow tables are completely useless. You don't have the hash. You need to derive the hash by guessing the path to an existing file, for each file.
My utility company told me they could do this, but I know for a fact they cannot. My power meter broadcasts its instantaneous reading in short plain text packets at a frequency once every few seconds. They told me all my power usage was hot water. I'm sure it's HVAC and computers, which didn't even show up in their list.
Just like last time?
But he's too stupid for that. He wants so badly to be king when the problems catch up that he would destroy the country to do it. He had a years long tantrum after he lost the election.
There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.
This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.
There's nothing wrong with the Watergate or pizza either.
The thought of Japan buying American cars is hilarious. American car companies only care about making oversized trucks and SUVs now. Even in America, if you buy a sedan you are most likely getting an import. In the most popular 25 sedan models in America according Kelly Blue Book, the top 5 are all Japanese and there are only 3 from American brands.
Why does that mean it's not signalgate? The name watergate comes from the luxury Watergate hotel in Washington DC where a crime was comitted. Having this conversation on Signal is unquestionably illegal, whether extra people were invited or not, and the scandal is because the conversation being on Signal, not because somebody may have been drunk.
Back when I still used Spotify it would regularly recommend to me podcasts more offensive than porn.
This will become more common. I've seen dead people involved in scams on the internet.
That is possible, but I don't think you need to worry about that. Having a copy of a movie is not normally itself a crime.