I find it really unfortunate that a "security through obscurity" mindset has remained deeply embedded in conventional wisdom despite its well-understood flaws

I find it really unfortunate that a "security through obscurity" mindset has remained deeply embedded in conventional wisdom despite its well-understood flaws I entirely blame tech companies for this one. While organizations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have made the argument that "obscurity is good for you actually" for completely cynical reasons that transparently benefit their business over their users, repeating their lies carries the clout of their tech organizations, and so has gotten a lot more credibility among people who should know better than most crackpot positions that go against the widespread consensus of the field ever do otherwise It's kind of like how petrol companies have warped the dialogue around climate change, and as in that case, their denialism seems oddly robust to an absolute mountain of compounding evidence that their position is wrong