On Sunday 25 February 2007 17:59, Gordon Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Adam Trickett wrote:
> > The problem with security through obscurity is that you think it adds
> > security, but in fact it adds little or nothing. Recently it has come to
> > light that the KGB had better maps of the UK than our own Ordnance Survey
> > had. OS maps of the UK maps excluded sensitive locations, they just
> > weren't there. People thought we were secure, in fact the KGB had all the
> > locations accurately marked on their maps - in fact their maps were quite
> > superior to our own in many ways.
>
> Of course the Soviets tried the same thing with their maps, though I
> don't know with what success. I do know that they excluded not just
> "security related" locations, but also anywhere they didn't much want
> tourists to go, like run-down areas ghettos.
Indeed, I believe Moscow was several hundred kilometers off to try and confuse
American programmers of ICBMs at the hight of the cold war
> It doesn't take long to prove that maps like that are useless and wrong.
Indeed!
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
