Lamar Owen wrote:
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 05:29:09 am Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the
world.
False. That is *NOT* a downside.
In your opinion. Others hold a different opinion. While security through obscurity doesn't help in many circumstances, there are physical security controls that absolutely depend upon it, and work. Physical lock and key, for one (the pinning must be kept obscure). Physical combination locks, for another; they depend upon keeping the gates in the wheels obscure. For that matter, any security that depends on any 'secret' is in essence a security through obscurity technique. Port knocking is a security through obscurity technique (which works quite well).
<snip> Sorry, let me jump in here: how is a "hidden" IP address, whether it's 10.x, or 192.168.x, obscurity. Rather, AFAIK, trying to get there from outside are unreachable, because the addresses are not valid on the 'Net itself.
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