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strkentoday at 12:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Lucketone likely knows this and was pointing out that "obscurity" is a misleading word to use when talking about systems which all rely on obscurity, in the plain English sense of the word.


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pdpitoday at 12:36 AM

We're in a technical forum, discussing a term of art that refers to a very specific bad practice.

Lucketone's argument is essentially saying that the bad practice itself isn't actually a bad practice by equivocating the term of art and the plain language definition.

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