Expanding this further, you might also frame this as surveillance by obscurity.

Or the whole suite of information-monopoly vices: surveillance, censorship, disinformation, propaganda, manipulation.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/7bfcf170eefc013863fa002590d8e506

All rely on a level of indirection between the target and the attacker, and on systems whose malicious behaviour is brokered by a not-immediately-apparent flaw.

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