anonymous wrote : 
  | I was thinking about how to do this best too for some time and I really 
think this is useful, not "security by obscurity", because people wont start to 
fiddle with something if they don't know it's there.
  | 

Sorry, but this is the definition of security by obscurity. Access to 
restricted pages should be secure especially if people start "fiddling" with 
them.

I'm not sure if you are aware of the fact that the hostname I use to reach your 
machine is entirely under my control. I can just add whatever I want to my 
/etc/hosts and I will see those pages.

And once you are using this as a security mechanism you will accidently rely on 
this because after a test on your setup it "looks" secure.

So in my opinion your security approach is like aiming the loadded shotgun at 
your foot and taking the safety off. You only have to wait a bit before it goes 
off.

Regards

Felix

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