Radoslaw Skorupka wrote, in part:
>"security by obscurity" means just the key under the mat.

I'd agree that it perhaps SHOULD mean that, but that isn't how people use the 
term. And even then, I'd submit that that's just another trivial case of "if 
you have enough": you have to know/think to look under the mat.

ObAnecdote: 35+ years ago, at a tiny vendor, we took a power hit and the room 
didn't come back up. Eventually I convinced myself the room still didn't have 
power, so I called the power company. By this point it's 2AM. Power guy comes, 
is cheerful, needs to get into room with main breaker. Door is locked. I ask if 
he has a sledgehammer; he says sure, but HE'S not about to smash the doorknob. 
No, I say, I'll do it. Building isn't supposed to have us locked out, we have a 
company to run, a $10 doorknob is a perfectly reasonable price to pay. So I 
bash the knob and he fixes the problem (a half-tripped breaker).

Next day I go down to tell the building guy what happened. He listens, 
laughs-and reaches up to the top of the doorframe, pulls down a key.

So we had security by obscurity AND the XKCD both more or less exemplified in 
one incident! (OK, we were smashing a door with a hammer, not hitting a guy 
with a wrench, but close enough.)


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