Hubris, was Re: [sldev] Cache politics: performance vs obfuscation

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-09, at 20:08, Gordon Wendt wrote:
> On the topic of obscurity through obscurity it doesn't work, period.

Depends on what you mean by "working".

It works well enough to make honest people treat a purchased object  
as having value.

Does it need to work any better than that?

All DRM schemes are no better than "honor system" deep. They work  
because most people don't need any more incentive than that.