On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at>
wrote:

>
>
> When people ask my "why?", I tend to answer "why not?".  It is not a
> security
> problem, in my opinion.  Every user is allowed to know that I have a table
> "purchase" with a column "credit_card_nr".  As long as the permissions are
> set
> correctly, that is no problem.  Any attempt to hide that information is at
> best
> "security by obscurity".
>

The typical answer is some variant of trade secrets.  Though wanting to
store private info in a comment has some merit too.

David J.

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