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pona-atoday at 9:23 AM0 repliesview on HN

Which is a the power of not relying on obscurity. The server not sending you its complete source code is not any more obscure than a secret key.

Security through obscurity is about obfuscating easy-to-recover trivia thinking it buys you any margin, like the client-side anti-cheat handing attackers everything they need to defeat it while trying to then obfuscate that code.