What is the name of the anti-pattern in which information is hidden behind interaction?

There is a UX anti-pattern in which important information is hidden behind some user initiated function.

1. What is considered an anti-pattern?
2. What is anti-pattern in design pattern?
3. What is anti-pattern in cyber security?
4. What is anti-pattern in API?

What is considered an anti-pattern?

“An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.”

What is anti-pattern in design pattern?

An anti-pattern is the opposite side of the design pattern. You can also call it design smell which is caused by bad software design. They are usually ineffective or obscure fixes. The existence of an anti-pattern in your code can create a lot of bugs and you may have to fix it later properly.

What is anti-pattern in cyber security?

The term 'anti-pattern' is now used to refer to any repeated (but ineffective) solution to a common problem, it is credited to Andrew Koenig who coined it in response to the seminal book 'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'.

What is anti-pattern in API?

Using bad methods

That can include tunneling requests through GET requests. You write a GET request to provide a resource and then manipulate the resource inside the GET request. That is an anti-pattern because it does not communicate to others that once they receive the resource they are supposed to do something else.