Questions tagged [status-completed]
Indicates that the report has been resolved through the implementation of a feature or the fixing of a bug.
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Proposed update to help center to decrease quantity of off-topic/migrated questions
I have noticed over the years that we get a lot of questions that are not information security specific, and are subsequently closed or migrated to a better site. While the migration process isn't a ...
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Request to rename [macosx] → [macos]
The current name of Apple's desktop operating system is macOS. On this site, the tag macosx is used to refer to that ("Mac OS X" was the original name of the operating system").
But other Stack ...
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Canonical answer for "Why not authenticate with the user sending an SMS?" should have its duplicate tags swapped
There are a number of questions on this site asking essentially the same question:
Why do 2FA apps send an SMS to the user rather than have the user send an SMS to the server?
here are some ...
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Merge [polp] and [least-privilege]?
These two tags looks like duplicates to me:
least-privilege: 3 questions, no wiki
polp: 1 question, good wiki
I think the general rule is to avoid abbreviations in tag names unless they are more ...
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Are [ssl-interception] and [tls-intercept] the same thing?
The following tags looks like duplicates to me:
ssl-interception (62 questions)
SSL Interception is a technique that can be used to intercept SSL sessions in order to inspect the encrypted traffic....
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Sprites not showing up any more
This may be related to Badge icons (especially gold) have a vertical offset considering it's about the sprites...
But for some reason I am unable to see any of the sprites on both security.meta....
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Badge icons (especially gold) have a vertical offset
I noticed that the icons for users with gold + silver + bronze badges are offset vertically from each other. For example:
It's difficult to tell if the silver and bronze badges are level (is silver ...
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Do we really need all the feeds in chat?
Machines are taking over the chat. That is, there are currently more posts by the feed bot than actual user activity. So, couldn't we drop the feeds that aren't security-related? We would also make ...
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"Digital Forensics" — on topic here, or create a separate site?
There is a proposal currently in evaluation to create a new site in the field of digital forensic science:
Digital Forensics
This appears to be a part of "Information Security" but we don't ...
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Information Security logo replaced by Server Fault logo
The Information Security logo has been replaced by the Server Fault one in all of the three top left drop down menus:
The Server Fault logo seems to be the default blue box that is used for sites in ...
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Merge tags [vulnerability] and [vulnerabilities]?
vulnerability : 209 questions
vulnerabilities : 43 questions and no tag wiki
Merge hammer?
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Please help me improve a question which had mixed reviewer reactions
I'd like to learn how to proceed in a case where there is disagreement between reviewers about the quality of a question and where it's not clear (at least to me) how I could improve the post further.
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Please Blacklist the Secure tag
Similarly to the security tag mentioned here, The tag secure exists on the site. It should be an intrinsic tag (blacklisted, but treated as a site tag when evaluating incoming migrations).
This is a ...
Rory AlsopMod
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response-splitting tag name is misspelt
As per https://security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/66101
This tag appears to be misspelled. One would expect 'response-splitting' with a double 't'. If this could be corrected ...
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Migration path to crypto.se
Crypto.se is graduating. Does that mean we can finally add an official "vote-to-close" option for our fourth-most-popular migration target?
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