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vault.backup.bin Why make it so easy to identify? I wrote a similar utility but I append the data to a particular .jpg file in my extensive photo collection.
by jqpabc123 10mo ago
vault.backup.bin
Why make it so easy to identify?
I wrote a similar utility but I append the data to a particular .jpg file in my extensive photo collection. The photo displays as normal and the date/time remains unchanged following a save.
- DetectDefect 10mo agoBecause security through obscurity is a 19th century maxim which is objectively ineffective at guarding secrets?
- jqpabc123 10mo agoThe security can remain exactly the same --- only the location is being obscured. Why make it easier to find when there is no need to do so? Ever hear of "steganography"?
- DetectDefect 10mo agoBecause that is not how adversarial activity has ever worked, or ever will work, but unfortunately it is how most people - who are irrational, unprepared and lacking a threat model - think it works.
- jqpabc123 10mo agoSo your rational and prepared threat model requires making the target easily identifiable?