On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:
>
>
> When people ask my "why?", I tend to answer "why not?". It is not a
> security
> problem, in my opinion. Every user is allowed to know that I have a table
> "purchase" with a column "credit_card_nr". As long as the permissions are
> set
> correctly, that is no problem. Any attempt to hide that information is at
> best
> "security by obscurity".
>
The typical answer is some variant of trade secrets. Though wanting to
store private info in a comment has some merit too.
David J.