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Systems security is an economics game. It is valuable to be protected against amateur attackers even if the most extreme state actors can still breach you.

The criticism of "security through obscurity" is specifically Kerchoff's Principle, which applies to cryptographic systems. It is not an absolute rule outside of that domain.



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