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We're in a technical forum, discussing a term of art that refers to a very specific bad practice. Lucketone's argument is essentially saying that the bad pract
by pdpi 5mo ago
We're in a technical forum, discussing a term of art that refers to a very specific bad practice.
Lucketone's argument is essentially saying that the bad practice itself isn't actually a bad practice by equivocating the term of art and the plain language definition.
- strken 5mo agoThe problem is that the term of art is confusing to technical people. See TFA. Technical people make logical leaps from "avoid security through obscurity [in the specific context of security systems which depend on obscurity and for which there are better alternatives than obscurity]" to "you should never obfuscate JavaScript" because the word is imprecise.
- fsckboy 5mo ago"security through obscurity" is not a term of art; it is not solely that property which RSA does not rely upon.