Counterargument: security by obscurity does work. The common strawman is that it doesn't, but that's when it's the only defence. See Spectre and Meltdown - if

Counterargument: security by obscurity does work. The common strawman is that it doesn't, but that's when it's the only defence. See Spectre and Meltdown - if it was easy to exploit then we would all be pwned unpatched just by running the Windows installer - just like how Windows XP machines used to do that back in the day.... If your exploit requires lots of disassembling, decrypting random ad-hoc custom crypto, and even finding what you're looking for in some random 100MB .dll, that just isn't very likely to be found except by the nationstate guys. The signal-to-noise ratio is a wonderful thing. It's much easier to hide something amongst very mundane things (most secrets are boring) than to heavily guard something and advertise "SECRETS ARE HERE". There's quite a few examples of this in various programs and web services, you obviously don't know because you didn't find it!