Microsoft security best practices is never to name anything .db They recommend obfuscating the function of the file and putting some strange or random (.bob) file extension. This is for when you have an active intrusion, you are not handing them what to take on a silver platter. You could argue the same applies to SQLite file naming conventions as well.
> Why do people use .db3 for sqlite database files? In my experience > .db3 is the file extension for dBase III database files.