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by stonecraftwolf 2018 days ago
“ More than 425 of the US Fortune 500 All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies All five branches of the US Military The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of the President of the United States All five of the top five US accounting firms”

What’s the opposite of security through obscurity?

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> What’s the opposite of security through obscurity?

Marketing

Any fortune 500 company that's been around for more than a decade probably has one of every enterprise software product running somewhere. When I worked at a big bank, when we acquired any company, large or small, the software stack they used usually just got bottled up where they were, and the client list on the vendor's website just got updated to the new company name.

I mean that company list has "smith barney" which doesn't exist anymore.

Software monoculture
What’s the opposite of security through obscurity?

Security.

Hiding in plain sight. Do not move, the T-rex cannot see us.
Pwned due to hubris?
Eschew Obfuscation