• mangaskahn@lemmy.world
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    Security by obscurity is no security at all. If you can’t publish the details of a system and have it still work, it was never secure in the first place.

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        And the United States government, whose nuclear launch systems for decades had a default “0000000” password on systems so old they figured nobody would know how to hack them in person anymore, and they’re incompatible with the internet.

        It’s disturbing to me that my high school hobby of fixing and operating old computers meant I could have launched nukes.