[26984] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SERVER NAMES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Thu Feb 3 02:48:59 2000
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 23:45:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, Steve Dispensa <steve@mwis.net>,
DeepBlue <james@darkblue.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> > > db.accounting.bigcorp.com
> > > foozlebutt.bigcorp.com
> >
> > Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here?
>
> Obscurity is like chicken soup ... it can't hurt
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all.
The proof is left as an execise for the reader.
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Patrick Greenwell
Earth is a single point of failure.
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