Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 10/21/07 19:55

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:42:39 GMT, "Sanders Kaufman"
<bucky@kaufman.net> wrote:

>"Gary L. Burnore" <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote in message
>news:ffg1n1$d6e$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:50:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
>
>>>> Nope. Security by obscurity is no security at all.
>>>>
>[snip]
>
>> 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.
>
>Yeah -but if you obscure the door well, you don't have to worry about
>locking it.

Not true at all. Comparing it to hacking, someone tries everything
whether or not it looks like a knob until something opens. Locking
the door would prevent that.
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