On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:35:00PM +0100, mrr wrote: > On 14/01/2015 06:00, Bob Proulx wrote: > >Trying to hide in an unusual username is obscurity not security. You > >may have heard the term that obscurity is not security. > > Well obscurity may help, think about the man who loose his car key somewhere > in an obscure place but will begin looking for it where there is some light > because it's easier to see around!
And looking in the wrong place means you'll *NEVER* find the keys no matter how good the light is. > Said otherwise, the "black hat" may try to hack easy targets (with known > username) before hacking you (with weird username), no? In this case the "black hat" *MAY* crack the password. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150116184146.GA30837@tal