Would showing primary key to the public be potential security risk?

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Published on 2010-05-28T13:32:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 15:42 UTC
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Well the question is self-explanatory. One more thing would be, if it is a security risk then please provide an example of what the user could do. In this case the primary key would be something like : "Product ID"

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