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Security Through Obscurity

by esher on 1/12/24, 8:47 AM with 1 comments

  • by esher on 1/12/24, 8:50 AM

    In other words — design your system assuming that your opponents know it in detail. (A former official at NSA's National Computer Security Center told me that the standard assumption there was that serial number 1 of any new device was delivered to the Kremlin.)

    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.71.html#subj19