Public Citizen: Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records

A server that relies on client software to enforce security restrictions is insecure. The availability of the client software is irrelevant. A fully proprietary client that was encrypted can still be dissambled once loaded into memory and all packets can be snooped.

The wire protocol needs to allow the server to enforce security or there
is no security. It is well established that obscurity does not provide
security. Any truly secure system has only one secret, the key value
itself. The algorithms are fully public and therefore fully reviewed.