>On the same theme, I think that people have fixated on "security by obscurity" == bad instead of the original message which was "security by only obscurity" ==

>On the same theme, I think that people have fixated on "security by obscurity" == bad instead of the original message which was "security by only obscurity" == bad. This seems to be the case for a lot of things in the technology. Someone shares an idea, it gets popular and through the years of "the telephone game" the original indent is lost but everyone is running around treating it as gospel. Everything from alige to security by obscurity.