computer-science
Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad
Key takeaways
- Loading...Security1050Escaping the crowded echo chamber I was recently reading a post by a user on a web development forum.
- Then I saw it: like a solo LGTM comment on a +4,156/-1,640 line PR, a comment from another user whom we'll call Echo:
- What was worse was that this comment had many upvotes, likely from others who had heard the phrase once and simply channelled their inner parrot to repeat it forever.
Loading...Security1050Escaping the crowded echo chamber I was recently reading a post by a user on a web development forum. This user, whom we’ll call Mini, was asking the community whether it was worth using Java Script obfuscation for some of the scripts running on their website. Their main goal was to make it harder for data-scraping bots to reverse engineer and replicate the API requests powering the page.
Then I saw it: like a solo LGTM comment on a +4,156/-1,640 line PR, a comment from another user whom we'll call Echo:
What was worse was that this comment had many upvotes, likely from others who had heard the phrase once and simply channelled their inner parrot to repeat it forever.
Article preview — originally published by Hacker News. Full story at the source.
Read full story on Hacker News →
More top stories
Aggregated and edited by the Scoop newsroom. We surface news from Hacker News alongside other reporting so you can compare coverage in one place.
Editorial policy · Corrections · About Scoop