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Yeah, in other words: it's not intended to hold up to scrutiny, just hold up to a glance.
by hermitdev 5y ago
Yeah, in other words: it's not intended to hold up to scrutiny, just hold up to a glance.
- Phrodo_00 5y agoI don't get this line of thinking. Nowhere does it says it's supposed to have any security uses.
- DonHopkins 5y agoIt's quintessential security theater.
- dhosek 5y agoRot13 hasn't been a serious encoding scheme for security since the Roman Empire. It's all about making an easy to encode/decode wrapper for hiding spoilers and the like. Back in the olden days, newsreaders had a shortcut key to run rot13 on the text of a post so you could unveil the spoiler or puzzle solution.