• @I_poop_from_there@lemmy.world
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    496 months ago

    Security through obscurity would be having a system connected to a network, but relying on a secret / unknown protocol to secure it.

    Air-gapping a system is a real and very useful security method. That being said, it’s not enough by itself.

    If you’re interested, have a look at past examples, like the recent work on breaking Tetra communication standard and Stuxnet.

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      46 months ago

      As another guy joked it’s really is genuinely more accurate to call floppy discs security by obsolescence because everyone doesn’t have the stuff required to manipulate/read floppy discs and there are even people who don’t even know what a floppy disk is and just think it’s a physical save button