Re:Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI
by rincebrain on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:07AM
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A concrete example of this happening would be when the NSA's catalog of implants and general descriptions of what they could do was released, and a large flurry of public (and probably private) activity surrounding rediscovering the wheel ensued.
It's a lot easier to build something when you have a loosely-constrained search space and a guarantee that it's possible, than to discover something entirely new.
Re:Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI
by ryao on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:53AM
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Security by obscurity is an antipractice.
Re:Your iPhone just got less secure. Blame the FBI
by cmiller1 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @12:37PM
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Sort of? You're not supposed to DEPEND on it as your only means security, but it certainly lowers the likelihood of something being broken into when combined with other methods of security.
Although given the fact that it was made public that they found a security hole, won't that change the behavior of malicious actors? Now that it's known that a hole exists, more people will start looking for it, reducing security through obscurity.