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by patrickg_zill 2811 days ago
This in no way harms Amazon in terms of security, though it may have a PR implication or possibly allow others to take Amazon to task in some way.

Security by obscurity cannot be relied upon.

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Well, Amazon had a very deliberate policy of keeping this stuff secret, and went to some lengths to keep it that way.

I agree it's hardly a death-knell for them, it's more of a hiccup, but they didn't want this to happen.