alt Hacker NewsSee https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563
> This is the same failure mode of all security-through-obscurity. Secrecy means that bad guys are privy to defects in systems, while the people who those systems are supposed to defend are in the dark, and can have their defenses weaponized against them.
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monerozcash • last Saturday at 2:09 PM
I don't disagree, but still think it's better to do as the lawyers tell you to.
That’s a great article - explains what I haven’t fully thought through or quite been able to put into words but what I’ve always felt, because the “you can’t tell people the secret rules” with things like money laundering is treated by many as obvious, but has never sat right with me.