Questions tagged [migration]
Questions related to migration, i.e. migrating off-topic questions from the Information Security Stack Exchange site to another site or from elsewhere to this site.
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Why was this question about clients reading HTTPS parameters migrated to Super User?
The question "Can HTTPS prameters be seen by the PC client?" was migrated to Super User, and I struggle to see why. It seems like an obvious fit for this site, on the format "can ...
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How can I salvage my question after it got "lost in migration confusion"?
I have a question about my Information Security Stack Exchange post: I have been a victim, but of what?
This is the timeline of what happened to my question:
Tuesday, 03:20 PM: I wrote a question on ...
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Are questions about cryptography migrated?
I still see that a lot of questions that are directly and only about cryptography and cryptographic schemes are kept here, while I'm regularly migrating questions to security.SE when they are on the ...
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My question was migrated to Super User but I think it was an inappropriate decision
Today I asked a question about the possibility of a file/folder being hidden by a malware such that Windows thinks it doesn't exist. My question was migrated to Super User without any explanation ...
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Should Law.SE be an automatic migration destination?
I've seen plenty of questions now that ask "Is it legal if...", or similar. I feel as if it would be valuable if Law.SE could be selected as a migration target, similarly to how Crypto.SE can be ...
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Why was this migrated?
Why was this migrated? There are other PGP/GnuPG question in InformationSecurity.SE
https://superuser.com/questions/1436140/verify-pgp-signature-on-fedora
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How to migrate to Ask Ubuntu?
There's a new question which is asking how to run sudo ./some-script.sh on Ubuntu. It's off-topic here, but Ask Ubuntu seems like a perfect fit.
However, when I go to flag it for a close vote, I don'...
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Is a question on how to evaluate anomalies in SOC reports on topic for this site?
I work in InfoSec as an IT auditor and have asked this question on The Workplace SE site some weeks back on how to evaluate anomalies in SOC 2 audit reports. Despite me editing it several times, I am ...
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Would this be a good question if moved here: Token-based authentication using access and refresh tokens
Token-based authentication using access and refresh tokens
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Is this approach secure? Specifically:
Is sending the username and password through JSON safe if done over ...
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Let's not go to Stack Overflow; 'tis NOT a silly place
TL;DR How can we stop people from suggesting that bad questions be re-asked on Stack Overflow?
Every so often, a new user asks a question that is more programming-related than security related. Then ...
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Where should this question regarding the viability of new TLDs go?
I asked a question that was closed, migrated, then rejected.
Suppose I were to purchase a new domain of .financial, hence my
email would be [email protected].
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What ...
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If a question got asked again in another SE instead of being migrated to the new SE, what should we do?
So TLS handshake proof of private key posession got asked here initially but after a user's advice it got cross posted to crypto SE (https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/41776/tls-handshake-...
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Computer security question migrated to bitcoin.SE
I wrote a question about avoiding single point of trust in online asset management services. I used Bitcoin as an example since it's a well understood example.
It was migrated to bitcoin.SE (here's a ...
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When flagging with "belongs to ... site" reason, should we consider the current form of the question?
There was a question today which considering its subject belongs to StackOverflow, however in its current form it would be immediately closed there.
In such cases is it better to:
flag/close as "...
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Do questions about test vectors belong to Crypto.SE or SEC.SE?
Recently, a user posted this question, which I think should be migrated to Crypto.SE.
A quick search shows that this specific kind of questions is present on Crypto, see this, but there is at least ...
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