I think most people just haven't thought about it as deeply or as meta as you.

Is that *the* issue?

If so, I think we talk about this in a misleading way when describing security.

Undisciplined

Another thing is some types of randomness are easy to quantify, like number of coin flips or dice rolls.

But if you are relying on the obscurity of your process, it's hard to quantify 

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[ELI5] How does low entropy hurt security?

Another thing is some types of randomness are easy to quantify, like number of coin flips or dice rolls.

But if you are relying on the obscurity of your process, it's hard to quantify *how unknown* it really is.