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March 31, 2003 at 03:42 AM
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Security By Obscurity.

by admin . Updated 23 years, 3 months ago

How many of us here use this tactic? I am just curious. There are some things I just don’t want to share because the reason they work is that so few people know about them.

Security by Obscurity can contain:

Custom Software
Obscure Software
Non-Standard ways of Routing etc.
Non-Standard Protocols
Non-Standard Topology
Obscure Hardware
etc.

I have found that using a mix of highly standardized products and obscure or seldom used products to help quite a bit. Sometimes it helps to “appear as one is not” or provide an easy path away from what you don’t want got at 🙂

I was just curious if anyone else (without having to give away trade secrets) ever used this approach.

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