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• Subject: Re: The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 21:00:49 +0000
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"Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...> wrote:

| would someone be kind enough to educate me why a self-describing data 
| file is not an easier target for data theft?

Since security through obscurity is no security at all - unless you're as
clue-challenged as this Russell Kay chappie - data being self-describing
is irrelevant.

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