Yeah, that's what I was trying to get at with my "in the age of automation" comment. If you go to a period in history without automation, then obscurity is going to be a lot more effective. And that's why I think people still want to go back to it. Obscurity is much easier to wrap your mind around than RSA, et al.
However, the psychological warfare video does make me think that there's still a place for obscurity after you've already used actual security measures. If you can find any technique that makes your attacker work harder vs some other target, then it feels like there's an economic value to doing it as long as the cost to you is relatively low.
However, the psychological warfare video does make me think that there's still a place for obscurity after you've already used actual security measures. If you can find any technique that makes your attacker work harder vs some other target, then it feels like there's an economic value to doing it as long as the cost to you is relatively low.