Why am I getting a refusal to help answer a question of mine?

Question

I asked a question about getting the intimate details (well network type, what cert was used to connect to a network connection) on Windows 10. Question for context: Replicating a wireless connection from Windows to Linux.

In the comment's I've had two responses:

1. I should not know those details (A bit odd for a response on SU)
2. "Because I don't know those details already and I don't have someone locally to tell me those details" then "being against the org policy/'network security'" is against "SU Policy" (This is a statement from a moderator)

Those responses make no sense to me as that 1. separate organizations. 2. the context of the question isn't about breaking into a network, it's about seeing how Windows is configured on a lower level.

Are those comments true, and is that the official stance of the site?

Answer 1

See the page about what questions you are allowed to ask.

Specifically, the section on what not to ask which includes this:

issues specific to corporate IT support and networks

We have no way of knowing how corporate networks and environments are set up and any suggestion we make would be pure guesswork, something that we try very hard to avoid.

On top of that, what happens when you get fired for attempting any suggestions we do give you? Who is at fault there? Do we take the blame for telling you how to bypass your corporate IT security?

It's better that we eliminate any chances of causing bad situations for end users by not allowing support for these types of questions.

Answer 2

Those responses make no sense to me as that 1. separate organizations.

Employees of an organization are told system configuration information for one reason, it’s required to do your job, simply being interested in a subject doesn’t mean you have a need to know that information.

Likewise you have indicated you don’t have access to anyone who has that need to know that information. Since you don’t seem to know enough about the organization’s network configuration, you have received close votes, for multiple reasons but primary due to the question not being within scope as defined by the help center.

Your question also asks about PEAP and TLS, since your unsure how your WPA2 Enterprise network is configured, but PEAP functions over TLS so what configuration information you want to know is actually not clear

the context of the question isn't about breaking into a network, it's about seeing how Windows is configured on a lower level.

We are not worried about you breaking into the network, you simply don’t know enough information, to provide enough information to answer the question. Besides you already have access to the network.