Security through obscurity is—in security engineering—the reliance on the secrecy of the design or implementation as the main method of providing security for a system or component of a system.

In 📝Knowledge Management, the principle acts as a method of 📝Social Engineering by allowing partial access by limiting navigation of the 📝compendium to the resources directly linked. With this structure, the more an outsider sees, the less they feel they know—thus prompting conversion.