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No. It's relying on both cryptography, and the inaccessiblity of information. Which is a tried, practiced, and often federally mandated, method of security. Controlling who has access to information is sorta security 101. Don't dump your database to the Internet.

Security through obscurity is allowing REST commands to the /totallysecretaddress/neverleaked/ URI.



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