Comment Re:Wines, cheeses, trees (Score 1) 1397
You got the meme wrong. Security through obscurity alone is not enough, but obscurity in addition to other measures certainly helps. Or are you sugegsting that our secret CIA operatives inside the Taliban would be more effective if they stood up in the middle of prayers and announced they worked for the Agency?
Right. Most people just call this camouflage, and it's been an effective strategy for millions of years. In fact, it's been so effective that I have to question whether this aphorism is true at all, or if it's just being misapplied here. Certainly denying you have security holes in your code is a bad idea, particularly if the bad guys already know about them. But making a machine on a net appear to be something other than it is, that sounds pretty effective to me, if it's done right.
