RE: Concepts: Security and Obscurity

[Daniel Miessler <daniel () dmiessler com>]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Pranay Kanwar wrote:

> Agreed there is no real world downside, but the problem is if
you preach this, then people will misunderstand things
and concentrate more on the "secret layer" than making
sure their daemons are secure.

I'm not sure that's a good reason not to add this layer. Anyone too  
dense to understand the distinction is probably a bad person to to  
have doing security in the first place.

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