Security by obscurity does not work, because people are only so creative up to a point. Hence, there are only handful of configurations for the attacker to try out.
This contrasts to e.g. 128-bit secure encryption, which involves trying 2^128 times to break it - which is a number with whopping 38 zeros. It takes 10^22 years to break it with trying at 1GHz rate. It is simply incomparable, and adding a few bits of security by obscure combination is simply not worth it.
Yet, so many people and organizations seem to prefer obscurity to actual security.
It really depends on the purpose. Sometimes you can hide stuff in unexpected places when there isn’t much interest for other people to find it, or if they don’t even know about it’s existence.
Also sometimes it is good enough to just delay the discovery of something for a while, because its value after a certain time diminished completely.
So, I would argue that sometimes security by obscurity can be useful. But I agree that it generally shouldn’t replace proper encryption.
I’ve learned a few things about some stuff to the point where I can definitely say I have some experience with them.
I know a dog called mister Dingleberry. Mister DingleBerry likes to dingle his berries. In dingling his berries he takes such delight, if he could he’d dingle his berries day and night.
One time, I remember it well, he dingled his berries so hard, he tripped over them and fell.
In dingling his berries he takes such glee, they say he dingles his berries mercilessly.
He dingles and dangles his berries berry hard. One time he got completely dingleburried under em and let out a fart.
The end.
I was a child star. As a member of the Singing Boys of Pennsylvania I performed in every state east of the Mississippi before age 12. I sang Carol of the Bells to a Cardinal in a McDonald’s. I have 8000 hours on a jack hammer and 5000 hours on a forklift. I’ve got thousands of hours doing finish concrete, plumbing, framing, roofing, sheet rocking, demolition, and more.
The only degree I’ve completed is my bartending degree, but in the 7 years I wasted in college I spent a year as a high school student teacher and two years interning as a respiratory therapist. I was a summer camp counselor working with horses, leading trail rides and teaching basic riding skills. I’ve worked farms. I was a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska. I was a volunteer fireman. I was a mechanic, A basement waterproofer, a contractor, a waiter, and a 6 figure salesman.
I’ve made $10,000 in a day many times and used a kureg to boil water for ramen because I didn’t own a microwave just as often. I’ve explored the pyramids with zahi hawass. I’ve crossed the Saini desert and slept under the stars in the Negev. I have crossed a desert on a camel with the the bediuon. . I’ve snorkeled in the red sea and swam a mile across shark infested waters to explore an island in the Mediterranean.
I’ve traveled north Africa. I’ve lived in Jerusalem. I’ve prayed at the Western wall. I’ve studied 5 languages but I only speak 2. I’ve traveled Europe by train. I’ve seen the Aurora with my eyes. I have a picture of myself standing next to a salmon shark while holding a WWII vintage M-1 Garand. I saved a harbor seal from a net. I have seen pilot whales surface three times before diving.
I am a musician. I grew up in a family folk band. My parents were founding members of Musikfest in Allentown. I grew up on stage. 6 months after first picking up a guitar I was performing Bach.
Today I am the only person in the world who makes the quarter million dollar JHMCS helmet, specifically the ROMA carbon fiber housing, but I am responsible for the whole thing. Any time you see an F 18 take out a target from five miles away, that was me. I work 65 hours, 7 days per week to meet demands that only get tighter.
A am a father, a husband, and carry the burden of more than one child who was never born.
My story is still being written. I will never stop searching for peace.
Ask me anything.
You sound like someone I’d love to sit and have a beer with. I hope you find peace.
Three questions:
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Zahi Hawass - was he just “on” as official national tour guide, or was he able to act like a real human, and if so, what was your read on him?
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While out and about in the Sahara, ever hear of or run into a guy named “Camel Steve”?
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Do you have a few JHMCS helmets with manufacturing flaws that you take home and let the kids run around with and play jet pilot?
Also, thanks for being a dude with stories on Lemmy.
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The real secret to the most delicious sauces you’ve ever tasted is one anchovy fillet chopped into paste and simmered into the sauce, for every litre/quart of sauce you are making.
It’s why the Romans didn’t use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.
And you can get 90% of the effect/taste by just adding more salt.
MSG, yes, kindof. Just adding normal table salt will only give about 50% of the effect of the umami punch that anchovies provide. Possibly less, and it’s far too easy to add too much salt.
ad infinitum… or ad kidneyitum, maybe
Well, I’m over 40, so I know a bit about WW2.
Mostly from the documentaries I fall asleep to in the afternoons.
I have ADHD at a level rarely rivaled so I know quite a bit about a variety of things
An airplane tire will hydroplane at a speed in knots equal to nine times the square root of the tire pressure in PSI. The real trick is undoing the little cap on the tire valve and reading the tire gauge while turning left base.
I got something for ya [gives you something]
For some reason this sounds like an euphemism and I love it
If you wanna talk grammar or sumo I know like 3 things, maybe 4.
I do.
I knew this guy who knows a thing or two about knowing what I don’t know.
Yes hello I know something
I’m experienced in having experiences
I can describe the flag of every country in Latin America and provide one trivia fact of my choice about the country as well.
