Hector Martin

You can obfuscate all you want, but it's always breakable given enough effort. Commercial products claiming otherwise are snake oil.

Of course that doesn't mean you should never do it, since sometimes obfuscation is all you *can* do, but what they've done here is silly.

I agree in this particular case, but which is safer, a safe on a street corner or a safe buried in an unknown field?

Bad analogy; in this world everyone owns a copy of the safe and can make safe-cracking robots for free and combine efforts.

Maybe having access to the same model safe, but not necessarily a copy of the safe with the same contents. That would depend on situation.

For obfuscation it's always a copy of the safe with the same contents. Otherwise there is other security involved. Obfuscation is cloneable.

Maybe we have a different understanding of what "security by obscurity" means. Consider: place an encrypted file on obscure url vs obvious

That's actually not obscurity, it's real security (akin to a password), assuming no directory listing etc.