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Message-ID: <001201c29e73$7e5f7d10$01000001@grotedoos> From: SkyLined at edup.tudelft.nl (Berend-Jan Wever) Subject: "security by obscurity" Hmmmm... ... isn't hiding your root password security through obscurity ? ... isn't hiding your private PGP key security through obscurity ? ... isn't 90% of security based on these kinds of obscurity ? FYI: Obscurity, according to the dictionary: 1. Deficiency or absence of light; darkness. (...I'm assuming nobody is talking about this one) 2a. The quality or condition of being unknown 2b. One that is unknown 3a. The quality or condition of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand 3b. An instance of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand. Just my ?0.02... SkyLined http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl "Don't you just love flares ?"