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As a class, just about any program that depends on security through obscurity has this trait.
by chc 13y ago
As a class, just about any program that depends on security through obscurity has this trait.
- malka 13y agoThere is no 'Security through obscurity'. At best, you will have the illusion of security, wich is worse than no security at all.
- chc 13y agoThis seems a bit like saying that there is no such thing as debugging because applications still have bugs afterward. I agree with the overall thrust that the security through obscurity is unreliable, but it is something, and it has even been effective to a limited degree on many occasions. (For example, many video game companies have employed defeatable security-through-obscurity successfully, because they only need to hold off the crackers for a couple of weeks.)
- betterunix 13y agoCan you name any software that relies on security through obscurity -- and I assume you mean obscurity from the user of the software, since nothing else seems relevant here -- that is not just a specific kind of DRM?