[Info-vax] Now you have way more things to worry about

[Dave Froble]

On 7/16/2023 10:27 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thinking about it some more, isn't all security obscurity?
>
> No.  Take physical security for instance.  Everybody knows where the computer
> center is.  They just don't want to deal with the armed guards at the entrance.

Well, one could hide the computers ...

>> Isn't encryption obscurity?
>
> It often is.  Sometimes encryption depends entirely on knowing a key that
> other people don't know.  But it isn't always, and it's usually a whole
> lot better when it isn't.
>
> Kevin Mitnick says that one out of every three whiteboards in offices have
> a password on them, it's just a matter of figure out where it is and what
> it's a password to.
> --scott
>


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