Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular
by BenjiWiebe on Sunday June 11, 2017 @11:44PM
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Of course it has to do with security through obscurity... Passwords themselves are only security through obscurity.
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Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular
by pvg on Monday June 12, 2017 @01:48AM
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No, they aren't. Not knowing something is not 'security through obscurity'. If it was, any encryption at all is 'security through obscurity' because, hey, you don't know the plaintext. That isn't what the term means at all.