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You are describing security through obscurity, which was considered a non-starter even before the advent of widely available software. It presumes that everyone
by cholantesh 10y ago
You are describing security through obscurity, which was considered a non-starter even before the advent of widely available software. It presumes that everyone who knows something is to be trusted, and everyone who doesn't is not competent enough to bridge that knowledge gap.
- Endy 10y agoSee, I see it rather that, no one is to be trusted - whether they happen to know something or not. Like I said elsewhere, it's the Prisoner's Dilemma writ large. My automatic assumption is that all other prisoners are out for their own good, and therefore I want to limit their access to that which they can use to disadvantage or harm me.