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6r17today at 3:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

The problem with that statement is that a lot of people who yield it fail to see the advantages that come with these extra shenanigans ; and let's just take pure concealment so I don't pushing weird arguments ; in the age of AI - each time we are able make an attacking AI misaligned we are essentially buying time ; an on-going attack is never a on-shot event ; it's an ongoing process where the attacker has to understand where it is located and what it can do ; since each element will be a resource ; do not let it have it in the first place.

It's a bit of an elitist view of security that romanticize concepts without thinking about what they can actually be used for. My personal bad experience with that was a manager who was stating me that having a different subdomain for the admin panel was a concealment and not a security practice.

I mean - it's very easy to see how this kind of argument actually prevents from doing something that can help just on the basis of philosophical purity - which often just miss the point - security is not a mechanism that will solve all your problems ; heck in fact I have to layer at least 4 mechanisms just on the http interface to feel safe ; it's more of a lot of layers that together form a barrier ;

We sit too much on TLS thinking "That's it, security job is done" - then we get some crazy stuff like French ANTS that get pawned with some IDOR ; as IF f* using some hash or something ; ANYTHING PLEASE F* HELL ; would have not helped