Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 10/21/07 21:23

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:03:45 -0000, gordonb.0dr8y@burditt.org (Gordon
Burditt) wrote:

>>>>> 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.
>
>Until someone observes you leaving your house, and then they know where the
>door is. It still might take some time to find the knob.

And back to IT, it's well known that the script kiddies have all day
to turn everything from an ant to a zebra and all of the sticks, twigs
and leaves in between until they find said knob. Then, while he (you
snipped the attribution and I'm not going back to look at who the he
was in this case) is busy thinking everything's cool because he's
obscure, the script kiddies are all talking about how to find the door
by lifting the leaf, turning the zebra and stepping firmly on the ant.

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