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You are making the same argument this article is trying to explain to you. Security by Obscurity is not bad because _on its own_ its not enough, its good becaus
by teknopaul 6y ago
You are making the same argument this article is trying to explain to you. Security by Obscurity is not bad because _on its own_ its not enough, its good because coupled with other layers it adds security.
I have been told to remove security by obscurity layers from systems by people that don't grok this.
Security was, in a few cases, reduced to nothing.
Systems that have one industry standard approach only laid totally open on the Internet due to a single misconfiguration or a single CVE being published.
Any other layer would have helped, however "insecure", but they were removed due to the misconception that the layers themselves were "insecure".
I would go so far as to say the first layer should always be security by obscurity for any unique system.
If you fire up a web server and have the first security requirement that each http request must have the header X-Wibble:wobble I promise you this layer of security will be working hard all day long. Cheap, impossible to get wrong, it's not sufficient but it works.