OPSEC

acronym

dark websecurityprivacy

Stands for: operations security

The discipline of protecting the small pieces of information that together reveal too much.

Operations security is about controlling metadata and habits, not just secrets: a username reused, a timestamp, a photo's location. A single item is harmless; the aggregate deanonymizes. For defenders and researchers alike, good OPSEC is mostly consistency.

Also known as: opsec, operational security

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