Richard,
Your analogy to the computer world is completely false because:
1. It is my understanding that the algorithm for making nukes is not so secret,
the problem is finding the hardware. Just search on google for how to make
n??r bomb - Results 1 - 10 of about 2,700. Search took 0.16
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Your analogy to the computer world is completely false because
...analogies are a handy way to reduce a pointless discussion to the wrong
problem. It's just like... oh... wait.
--
Michal Zalewski
Life is like an analogy.
In a recent exchange,
A sky is falling!!! mystery guest hiding behind:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote
...BS. This is exactly what they want you to think.
Just about every 'war' since WWII has been scripted by
the CIA (and friends) to scare you into giving up your
rights in the name of national
Note that the policy of security by obscurity in WMD info has been
ratified by the UN via accords including the Chemical Weapons Convention,
the Biological Weapons Convention and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/international/middleeast/07NATI.html
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... isn't hiding your root password security through obscurity ?
... isn't hiding your private PGP key security through obscurity ?
... isn't 90% of security based on these kinds of obscurity ?
FYI: Obscurity, according to the dictionary:
1. Deficiency or absence of light; darkness.