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Security through obscurity never worked. Baffling that an CIA man does not know this.
by holri 14y ago
Security through obscurity never worked.
Baffling that an CIA man does not know this.
- ceejayoz 14y ago> Security through obscurity never worked. It works all the time for people having affairs. You're typically hiding from your spouse, not the CIA/FBI.
- illuminate 14y ago"It works all the time for people having affairs" It rarely works ~well~ considering all the times that they're caught due to the extreme amount of suspicion their actions generate.
- ceejayoz 14y agoPlenty of people sustain lengthy affairs without being caught by their spouses.
- illuminate 14y agoDepends on how you define "works", certainly. People are rarely as clever as they think they are.
- FireBeyond 14y agoIt works a lot less for the head of an intelligence agency, a political appointee, during an election season.
- ceejayoz 14y agoEven then, the set of circumstances it took for this to be revealed was quite the bizarre one. A socialite who's flirting with another general, a jealous reporter who's sleeping with the subject of her book, an FBI agent who wants to sleep with the socialite...
- SkyMarshal 14y ago>Security through obscurity never worked. In order to know this for a fact you would need to know all the instances it was tried, and that every single one of them failed. Somehow I doubt you know that, and are just repeating an operating system platitude as if it applies everywhere.