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"security" by obscurity is the golden standard here. You don't want to see the massive incompetence at play if everything was open.
by ekianjo 3y ago
"security" by obscurity is the golden standard here. You don't want to see the massive incompetence at play if everything was open.
- bombcar 3y agoI think, as a society, we do want to see it, slowly, over time. Perhaps requiring they be open sourced after a point in time or to be eligible for medicaid, etc. Maybe only new ones - but eventually we need to clean this up; as we're creating a digital superfund site each time, only covered up by people disposing of them or dying.
- rektide 3y agoAllowing/affording society some ability to come in, to see, to form opinions seems so elemental to progress in general. Pay no attention to the man behind thr curtain forever & ever, everywhere, does not seem like a great strategy for keeping & maintaining a society.
- bitwize 3y agoGonna go out on a limb and guess that it's enough to send shivers down anyone who's heard the Therac-25 story...
- rektide 3y agoconfidence through obscurity? actually a semi interesting argument, which seems likely to be widely accurate in many places.
- Izmaki 3y agoAuditing is a mess more so than security by obscurity. Source: employee.