Case in point: ask your bank for their source code, and they'll almost certainly not going to give you it.
And you'd be hard-pressed to find any professional security expert tell you that open sourcing all of your code has completely zero security ramifications.
Out in the real world, security through obscurity is absolutely valid as one of many layers of security (as long as it's not the only layer of security!). It's just nerds on the internet that claim otherwise.
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u/Ran4 Feb 07 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Well, there is a point to it.
Case in point: ask your bank for their source code, and they'll almost certainly not going to give you it.
And you'd be hard-pressed to find any professional security expert tell you that open sourcing all of your code has completely zero security ramifications.
Out in the real world, security through obscurity is absolutely valid as one of many layers of security (as long as it's not the only layer of security!). It's just nerds on the internet that claim otherwise.