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Re: Facebook Image Privacy


From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:09:18 -0500

Larry was _specifically_ stating "maybe security through obscurity
works after all".  That is _specifically_ an argument regarding
operating systems and other designed systems.  I was saying that, no,
the fact that secrecy works pretty well with passcodes (including the
passcode in Facebook's URL) doesn't mean at all that obscurity works
well in the rest of secure design.

But.. but... but...

Since it seems you dropped this context, we can end the argument
here.

Oh well, OK...

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/

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