Security through Obscurity … is it always applicable?


“Security through Obscurity”

Wikipedia definition:

Security through obscurity is a controversial principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy to provide security. A system relying on it may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that the flaws are not known, and that attackers are unlikely to find them.

What (I think) is wrong…

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