On 4/22/2011 4:17 PM, Rob Schramm wrote:
Super Secret (aka Security Through Obscurity) is always a bad idea. Security and integrity are difficult enough when balanced against allowing progress to occur. Adding in ridiculously risky back doors into your system is a recipe for disaster.
I take issue with "always", as a special SVC on a sandbox system may save significant time debugging and writing new software, while presenting minimal exposure.
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