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Can someone guess OIDs to retrieve unauthorized data from the WOS Cloud?

April 26, 2017Cloud Data guess OIDs unauthorized wos

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Can someone guess OIDs to retrieve unauthorized data from the WOS Cloud?

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No they cannot. OIDs are unique and include embedded security features that make them non-deterministic. Even if an object is deleted, the same OID will never be handed out again for a new object. Knowing one or more OIDs doesn’t provide any information that would allow retrieval of other OIDs.