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Re: Facebook Image Privacy


From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:53:41 +0100

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
Dan Kaminsky wrote:
Obscurity is not secrecy.

They're the same thing, just different degrees.


Used to think the same, actually.  But if you look at what obscurity
is always used to refer, it's "this ordered system has *so much
structure* nobody could ever figure it all out".  That's a very
different argumentory path than "there is nothing to figure out, they
simply mathematically have to know this secret or brute force".
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