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Nathan Minier23-Apr-21 1:13
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honey the codewitch23-Apr-21 6:17
mvahoney the codewitch23-Apr-21 6:17 
That's true, but it amounts to "security by obscurity", which is a thing precisely because it is Bad(TM)

Github is serious bait though, so I understand, it's just that localizing it doesn't necessarily make you more safe - in fact, it will be less safe if someone *does* hack it, because then they're on your network.

Playing the odds with someone not finding out almost universally underestimates malicious actors, who use crawlers, hacked DNS servers, and scanners (all usually distributed) and the like to find vulnerable targets. That's part of why I said security by obscurity is Bad(TM)

I'm not a security expert, but I *may* have had more experience with it because of my background than some people here, and so I'm offering this FWIW.

Anyone who has been in a network security role, by all means weigh in here.
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