> In your opinion.  Others hold a different opinion.  While security through 
> obscurity doesn't help in many circumstances, there are physical security 
> controls that absolutely depend upon it, and work.  Physical lock and key, 
> for one (the pinning must be kept obscure).  Physical combination locks, for 
> another; they depend upon keeping the gates in the wheels obscure.  For that 
> matter, any security that depends on any 'secret' is in essence a security 
> through obscurity technique.  Port knocking is a security through obscurity 
> technique (which works quite well).

you're talking about hiding the lock itself in a chinese puzzlebox, not 
hiding the tumblers inside the lock.


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