Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

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  • AnActOfCreationEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    If your subdomains being public is a security issue then I’d argue something else is wrong. Otherwise you’re using security through obscurity.

    But I appreciate the insight and I see how this was a harder sell back when it happened. Thanks!

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      Not necessarily. Let’s say you’re a known contributor to a closed source project. You don’t want people knowing you have a locally hosted gitlab instance at gitlab.mydomain.com, for example.

      • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        8 months ago

        If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have one on your domain. If someone wants to know your subdomains, they can still brute force them