All,

I have an application that passes an id value through a hyperlink that
the user clicks on in an e-mail. The id feeds the page and extracts information and 
populates the form fields with the user's information.  

THE PROBLEM:
If a user is viewing their customized information with their user id=23, than what 
would prevent them from view other people's information by editing the id value to 
say, id=24?

SOLUTIONS: ???
1) Should I scramble the value in some long string and extract a value from it? For 
example for id=23 replace it with id=ei38skdh23skdu83 and pull 23 out of the string?
2) Set a cookie that contains the same id value and if the values don't match kick 
them out to some other page?

Any suggestions would be great.

D-
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