Re:UK Releases 130 Terabytes of Oil and Gas Data
by r3un1 on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:40PM
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Security through obscurity has different merits depending on the context.
In software, it is a really bad idea to hope that your code is so obscure that no attacker will find a security flaw.
IRL, on the other hand, unknown positions of assets are often critical (the uncertainty whether you know about all the adversary's nuclear silos being a huge part of the nuclear deterrence policy).
There is just so much resources you can throw at discovering underground pipelines.
In software, it is a really bad idea to hope that your code is so obscure that no attacker will find a security flaw.
IRL, on the other hand, unknown positions of assets are often critical (the uncertainty whether you know about all the adversary's nuclear silos being a huge part of the nuclear deterrence policy). There is just so much resources you can throw at discovering underground pipelines.