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by RMPR 2177 days ago
Security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy as the main method of providing security to a system or component. Security experts have rejected this view as far back as 1851, and advise that obscurity should never be the only security mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

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