Re: Facebook Image Privacy

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote:
> Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > Larry was _specifically_ stating "maybe security through obscurity
> > works after all".  That is _specifically_ an argument regarding
> > operating systems and other designed systems.
>
> Where? Here's what I have from Larry in this thread:
>
> "A Facebook employee entered a comment that said that only the user who
> posted the image gets that URL from them, so therefore it’s private..."
>
> "I’ve often thought that security through obscurity gets a bad rap.
> Perhaps this is one of those cases.

And what are the other cases in which security through obscurity gets a bad rap?

Is there somewhere we actually disagree?

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