Re: Facebook Image Privacy

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> 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?

Yes... in URLs! That's the whole thread!

                                                BB
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