-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-07-13 at 23:26 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
[1] Security trough obscurity is often criticized as bad practice, but actually it is the only way security can work.
Simply not true. Just because you don't have all pieces to the puzzle does not mean that the security is provided by obscurity.
The patches for the recent DNS security problem were prepared in secret by all distros and OSes. The hole itself has not been publicly explained, as far as I know. That's a good sample of security by secrecy... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIezT9tTMYHG2NR9URAm7pAKCTqOZZXmsr83jG9vv/fBNb4jerYQCdEJ4X qnT4HEOhPpPq4znNAixz9+Q= =2G7m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org