You're right. A standard will just work till the moment it will be cracked.
And after that
the standard will be droped down and people will go back to their own home
made rules.
I don't agree with that. A standard is a way many people can manage have good
rules in an interoperable way. A good standard is peer reviewed and hard to
break. Home made tricks usually just work for security through obscurity, and
are not available to the community, which may try to invent tricks that usually
don't work.
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