#securitythroughobscurity

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-05-20

The first thing that would have to happen is a party, any party, in Canada aside from the Bloc would have to include transitioning to an independent Republic in their party platform.

I don't see that happening unless some sort of outside force/event occurs that makes it a current and immediate issue in the public sphere.

At this point I think most Canadians are open to the idea but it's not a priority.
#Uninteresting #SecurityThroughObscurity #Canada #UK #CanPoli #RepublicOfCanada

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-05-20

In other news... now that the United States Fascist Government isn't *actively* threatening Canada's sovereignty, the BBC is back to having no Canada-related articles on the top tier of its "US & Canada" section.

There is not a *single* story about Canada.

Even though the King is coming in less than a week.. lol.

I know it's not “the time”... but, why are we still a Monarchy…?

#Uninteresting #SecurityThroughObscurity #Canada #UK #CanPoli #RepublicOfCanada
bbc.com/news/us-canada

As of 12:30PM PDT there are 5 articles with image previews in this screenshot from the US & Canada section. All are American related.
zeyus :gopnik_implant_b:‎zeyus@corteximplant.com
2025-01-18

I just remembered about port knocking, it is by far the most spy movie security-through-obscurity gate of cybersec

You must know the secret knock

...and of course now it's configured on my VPS on top of the usual SSH restrictions (no root login, attempt limit, PK auth, etc)

#ssh #linux #server #CyberSecurity #cybersec #securitythroughobscurity #securitybyobscurity

MathiasTCKmathiastck
2024-09-22
hugovangalen 🤖 🕹️ 😼hvangalen@mastodon.nl
2024-05-21

Apple vulnerabilities, Chrome zero-days, Windows exploits...

But sure... "open-source is a security problem" after that whole xz utils debacle. 🙃

#SecurityThroughObscurity

2024-05-09

We're currently locked out of the system because someone brushed past the whiteboard and we can no longer make out the passwords

#infosec #security #password #securitythroughobscurity

2024-03-10

Microsoft – security through obscurity = no security

Recent Russian hacks of Microsoft systems are believed to have exposed some of the source code of Microsoft systems. Microsoft have been relying on obscurity to keep their systems safe. Keeping the source code hidden.
It has been known since the 19th century that this is not smart.
#hacking #microsoft #news #securitythroughobscurity
daily-twerk.com/science/micros

Microsoft logo with shadow of a hand holding a padlock
2024-03-10

Microsoft – security through obscurity = no security

#hacking #Microsoft #news #SecurityThroughObscurity

Recent Russian hacks of Microsoft systems are believed to have exposed some of the source code of Microsoft systems. Microsoft have been relying on obscurity to keep their systems safe. Keeping the source code hidden.
It has been known since the 19th century that this is not smart.

daily-twerk.com/science/micros

Microsoft logo with shadow of a hand holding a padlock
pacanukeha❌ (seasonally appropriate remix)pacanukeha@mstdn.ca
2023-12-27

4-year campaign backdoored #iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever
#Apple #iOS #MacOS #MMIO #ZeroDay #SecurityThroughObscurity #CyberSecurity #APT
arstechnica.com/?p=1992873

2023-07-30
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@mstdn.social
2023-07-24

@md @bmi @bsi #TETRA's #Crypto is so #weak that it's trivial to crack with any modern #GPGPU, because it's #SecurityThroughObscurity makes all the #TEA versions as weak as #CSA on #DVB.

But then again noone pays me to fix it, so it's not my problem.

Spoiler: The proper fix is to abolish all #proprietary shit and demand a fully #OpenSource'd communications system, since everything else violates #KerckhoffsPrinciple and is thus inherently and unfixably insecure by design!

2023-06-14
2023-05-14

Google's plummeting search quality made the company desperate to please its "activist investors"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai

#SecurityThroughObscurity #SearchQuality #Enshittification #Google

Having to build a search-ranking algorithm that can withstand relevancy attacks funded by every legitimate business, every scammer, every influencer, every publisher, every religion and every cause on the entire planet Earth might just be an unattainable goal. As Elizabeth Lopatto put it:

    [The] obvious degradation of Google Search [was]caused in part by Google’s own success: whole search engine optimization teams have been built to make sure websites show on the first page of search since most people never click through to the second. And there’s been a rise of SEO-bait garbage that surfaces first.

Search was Google’s crown jewel, its sole claim to excellence in innovation. Sure, the company is unparalleled in its ability to operationalize and scale up other peoples’ ideas, but that’s just another way of saying, “Google is a successful monopolist.” Since the age of the rail barons, being good at running other peoples’ companies has been a prerequisite for monopoly success. But administering other peoples’ great ideas isn’t the same thing as coming up with your own.

With search circling the drain, Google’s shareholders are losing confidence. In the past year, the company caved to “activist investors,” laying off 12,000 engineers after a stock buyback that would have paid all 12,000 salaries for the next 27 years.
2023-04-20
JL Johnson :veri_mast:User47@vmst.io
2023-03-13

@bragi @AirlineReporter @leo I guess there were only 9 versions and some dummy let a newspaper take and post a photo of them. #SecurityThroughObscurity 🙄

2023-02-24

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