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Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 10/21/07 17:19
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:50:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
wrote:
>Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Security is not about prevention, just like there is no way to
>>>> prevent someone from breaking into your home. There is no such
>>>> thing. What it is is about identifying undesired ways of accessing
>>>> your files and limiting the effect of exposure. It's just like
>>>> locking your valuables in a bank vault to limit your exposure if
>>>> someone breaks into your house.
>>>>
>>> It may go no further than simply living quietly, so that no one knows
>>> or cares where you live, and never looking like you have anything
>>> worth stealing.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nope. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
>>
>Oh, indeed it is.
You can claim that all you want but it's not true. While it is
incorrect to claim that security is not about prevention, obsecurity
only fools the entity doing the obscuring into thinking they're
secure.
Using your own analogy, if you live quietly and no one knows or cares
where you live and you look like you have nothing worth stealing, a
crackhead could still walk into your house and murder your wife and
kids.
Locking your door would be a form of prevention that could easily keep
it from happening. Will it keep everyone out? No. but it'd keep out
the crackhead who'd just go to the next house to look for an unlocked
door. (fyi, using crackhead in rl as compared to a cracker on the
internet. :) )
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