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Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by ignoramous on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:37PM (#14533917)
It might not be. When someone raises concerns around disclosing weak passwords or weakness in crypto, or security holes in general [0], I kind of like to think they are trying to think abt the problem in the wrong way. STO is a good framework, I think, to help people steer in the right direction, and hence the 'also see' label.

[0] Google's notorious Project Zero, for instance.

Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by pvg on Sunday June 11, 2017 @08:11PM (#14534517)
STO is a good framework

It's a fairly specific term so trotting it out for everything makes it pointless and obscures its actual meaning. Every time someone misunderstands something about information security (or someone thinks they do), someone else comes along and says 'Security through obscurity!' or 'Trusting trust!' or something about source code. It turns these things from terminology and concepts into magical-sounding incantations that really just mean 'I disagree/don't like this'.

This is analogous to the more familiar overuse of 'ad hominem' and 'straw man' and so on. It's not a good thing.

Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by ignoramous on Monday June 12, 2017 @10:42AM (#14537715)
I get your gripe with the overuse. I now agree with the point you are trying to make. Thx.