Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer gravely

Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by staunton on Sunday April 30, 2023 @06:40PM (#35767221)

Security through obscurity is how pretty much all cybersecurity security works on practice. There are a few publicly known primitives but organizations trusted with implementing actual security systems will go to great lengths to prevent anyone finding out which of them are used and in what way.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by ungamedplayer on Sunday April 30, 2023 @06:54PM (#35767306)

This is a naive view of cybersecurity.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by staunton on Sunday April 30, 2023 @07:51PM (#35767630)

What's a better and non-naive view? Bonus points if you can explain why it's impossible to develop and sell a link encryptor running OS software.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by ungamedplayer on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:34AM (#35784111)

Will any explanation do? Sounds like you are limiting your scope to super narrow boundaries.

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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by staunton on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:24PM (#35792023)

I honestly don't know what you mean. My question was about your view of how cybersecurity works in practice and what role security by obscurity plays in it.

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