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> If there were a crowd of script kiddies rapping on the armour of every tank they could see, then yes, making your tank less visible would endanger it.

I don't follow. If your tank is less visible, it gets seen (and thus interacted with) less on average, regardless of how many people are looking for tanks.



It gets interacted with less by the less sophisticated attackers. But you want those attackers to be targeting you, because they'll find holes and use them for relatively harmless things. Whereas if your only attackers are the sophisticated ones, the holes in your security will be used only for serious attacks.




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