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A comment on Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by tptacek on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:26PM (#29571183)
Likely for the same reason that not every rule about combating spam and promotion on HN is public: because if you document them all, you're providing a blueprint to bad actors for how to get around the rules.
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Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by datavirtue on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:53PM (#29571489)
Integrity by obscurity?
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Re:Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and... by tptacek on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:56PM (#29571515)
If you find that concept jarring, I think you'd be surprised by how much of security, compliance, privacy, and anti-spam is facilitated in part by obscurity. These tasks are about imposing costs --- ideally untenable costs --- on bad actors; obscurity has a cost as well.

There are times when obscurity isn't OK (notably, when it prevents other good actors from verifying the security of a piece of software), but this isn't one of those times.

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