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maxloh on Dec 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beeper Mini is back

That kind of collision is very unlikely to happen.

It is comparable to someone stealing your Windows license key by guessing randomly.

More on collision: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23253149/

grishka on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

Are Apple device serial numbers hashes, though? Suppose you look through a factory-packed box of iPhones, the kind that Apple resellers get delivered, would their serial numbers not be sequential or at least numerically close to one another?

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