A security anti-pattern in which secure information is "protected" by making it "hard to find" in the mistaken belief that it is then secure.
I've inherited a web app that I've just discovered stores over 300,000 usernames/passwords in plain text in a SQL Server …
security encryption passwords security-by-obscurityI recently came across a system where all of the DB connections were managed by routines obscured in various ways, …
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