Opinion: LLMs Accelerate the Death of Security Through Obscurity
dyn___ · x · 2026-08-23
A user responding to Chris Rohlf and Alex Stamos argues that "security through obscurity" is effectively dead, and LLMs have made it deader. Many weaker systems that relied on obscurity and limited device access for security against a wide range of threat actors can no longer depend on it.
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