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> "Security by obscurity does not work"

Depends on the context and exposure. Sometimes a key under a rock is perfectly fine.

I used to work for a security company that REALLY oversold security risks to sell products.

The idea that someone was going to wardrive through your suburban neighborhood with a networked cluster of GPUs to crack your AES keys and run a MITM attack for web traffic is honestly pretty far fetched unless they are a nation-state actor.



Realistically we get into $3 wrench territory pretty quickly too.


They could also just cut and tip both ends of the Ethernet cable I have running between my house and my outbuilding too. I probably wouldn't notice if I'm asleep.


Metaforgotten, but this is a very standard attack surface, you don't need to imagine such a close tap, just imagine that at any point in the multi node internet an attacker has a node and snoops the traffic in its role as a relaying router.


With inflation looks like its now a $5 wrench :-)

https://xkcd.com/538/


AmazonBasics is good enough in this case! ;)




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