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john_strinlaiyesterday at 4:05 PM1 replyview on HN

>Ah yes closed source software has such a great track record compared to open source security… lol

what does this have to do with anything i said or the contents of article?

>You are wrong, if you need to hide your code for it to be secured, then it was never secure to begin with.

did you just ignore the entirety of my last comment? obscurity is a first layer, solely to raise the barrier of entry and slow the game-crackers down. it is not the entire security model.

it is effective at what it is designed to do, and it is low effort to implement.

>But it’s a great way to give a false sense of security through half baked metaphors.

my comments dont have any metaphors. what are you talking about? i think you may be out of your depth here.

your entire comment is based on the premise of obscurity being the only security. i can only say the same thing so many times, but here it is one more time: your original comment is only applicable if obscurity is the sole line of defense. it is not the sole line of defense here.


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