> "Kind of more secure" -- security by obscurity. If anything, it
> just means people intent on doing
> so will attempt a costly brute-force search, which will likely
> cost a bit on the server end. It
> doesn't prevent them from finding them, just makes it more
> difficult. It's like laws -- the good
> guy doesn't need 'em, the bad guy doesn't care. The only thing
> that is actual security is the
> username/password system preventing illicit access.
>
> I recall several hosting places (like multimania / lycos)
> complaining they didn't want
> firebird/interbase on their servers (with, instead of mysql)
> because anyone with a valid
> username/password could look at the metadata (though not the
> data) of other users' databases. They
> seemed to think that at least "trade secrets" (or somesuch) would
> become exposed (metadata is data,
> thus valuable.)
>