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Security through obscurity should be long dead by now. If the only thing stopping people from damaging these assets is their 'secret' location, we have a big pr
by haser_au 8y ago
Security through obscurity should be long dead by now. If the only thing stopping people from damaging these assets is their 'secret' location, we have a big problem.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoDo they put Fylingdales on maps yet? Though of course it's been well known for decades :)
- arethuza 8y agoI did a quick check and RAF Fylingdales is easy to find on Apple and Google maps. However, my OS Maps app won't find it even though I can find other 'normal' RAF bases (e.g. RAF Lossiemouth).
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoI should be surprised that OS still don't list it, but I think it's almost quaint these days. :)
- arethuza 8y agoWell, for doing anything outdoors I'd take OS 1:25000 maps over Google or Apple maps any day (both the app and backup paper versions).
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoMe too. I meant the continued absence of a huge base and radomes from the OS maps was the quaint relic, expressed poorly. :)
- dantheman 8y agoThis is completely incorrect. Things can be made so difficult that they become impractical by forcing the bad actor to do a lot of grunt work.
- osrec 8y agoIn some sense, that's what cryptography is.
- maxerickson 8y agoNot finding significant pipelines. That's pretty easy if you want to do it.
- r3un1 8y agoSecurity through obscurity has different merits depending on the context. In software, it is a really bad idea to hope that your code is so obscure that no attacker will find a security flaw. IRL, on the other hand, unknown positions of assets are often critical (the uncertainty whether you know about all the adversary's nuclear silos being a huge part of the nuclear deterrence policy). There is just so much resources you can throw at discovering underground pipelines.
- MrMorden 8y agoSilos are hard to move; secret nuclear launch locations are provided by SSBNs.
- samplatt 8y agoSecurity through obscurity is a useful and valid part of a security process, but only if it's one of many parts of the process.
- mc32 8y agoPeople like vandals and thieves and vagrants can be deterred by obscurity. There are lots of things which enjoy a modicum of peace and non disturbance because of obscurity. Maintenance sheds, utility rooms, etc.