Please don’t parrot phrases if you don’t understand them. “Security by obscurity” is bad when the security is provided only by the obscurity, such as when you h

Please don’t parrot phrases if you don’t understand them. “Security by obscurity” is bad when the security is provided only by the obscurity, such as when you have an unauthenticated service running on a hidden port somewhere. Otherwise, obscurity is an essential part of security — the concept of passwords and secret encryption keys rely on obscurity by definition.