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If brl is watching, he'll name one that I decided was much too much of a pain in the ass to win a message board bet over. Most of my experience here is NDA'd though.


Most of my experience here is NDA'd though.

...security through obscurity never really works.


A nonstatement. Just because something is obscure doesn't mean that it hasn't also been secured. More importantly, in this setting, obscurity increases cost. DRM is all about cost.


A nonstatement. Just because something is obscure doesn't mean that it hasn't also been secured.

A nonstatement. Just because something has also been secured, doesn't mean that it is secure. Obfuscation has no true correlation to true security.


I don't know who's argument that comment was intended to address, but it wasn't mine.




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