Questions tagged [tags]
For questions about tagging questions, creating and deleting tags and tag synonyms.
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Is it worth making a tag for [reproducible-builds]?
A search for "reproducible build" turns up 61 posts. Even if we discount some of the posts as questions and answers in the same thread, I think a reproducible-builds tag would be in the top ...
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Tag for "group chat" encryption and group key exchange protocols
I'm proposing a new tag to cover the more specific key exchange and encryption amongst groups.
I'm thinking along the lines of group-chat : an argument for this choice is that the concept would be ...
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Can we make the 2fa tag a synonym of multi-factor?
I've been trying to kill the 2fa tag for a while, but it keeps comming back from the dead. We already have the tag multi-factor and I see no meaningful distinction that would be upheld by people ...
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What to do about the password tag mess?
Our tagging landscape for all things password-related is a bit of a mess. Right now, there are:
passwords (3.8k): Specific to the security of passwords: hashing, entropy, cracking, resets, lockouts, ...
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Should we deprecate [technology]?
I believe it's pretty self-evident that technology is rather generic at best. The tag currently has four questions, none of them pretty good. Let's have a look at the four burnination questions:
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user163495
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Should LibreSSL have a tag?
There is no tag for LibreSSL, and I've now encountered several Qs that are tagged openssl but are actually about Libre. Searching "libressl" finds 55 Qs while "libressl [openssl]" ...
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What should we do about all the data destruction and recovery tags?
There are a lot of tags that seem fairly redundant. There are a number of posts (example) discussing data remanence and recovery which seem to be used more or less interchangeably:
data-recovery
data-...
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What's your angle on [Angular]?
The name "Angular" is used to refer to Angular 2.0 and upwards, while the name "AngularJS" refers to the old 1.x version.
We have had angularjs for some time, it has 32 questions. ...
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Can we exclude some inclusion tags?
We have the following three tags:
file-inclusion, 36 questions:
A remote code execution attack where user input is used to build the path of code files to be executed, allowing an attacker to ...
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Rewording "Whitelist" and "Blacklist" tags
Given the recent move away from the loaded meanings of "white" and "black", and that organisations are moving away from the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist", ...
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What is the point of company-specific tags and should we burninate them?
I recently saw that microsoft exists, and has 79 questions tagged as of this writing. Upon checking, apple, amazon and facebook exist as well.
Facebook I can explain, since the company and the main ...
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Do we need the [bypass] tag?
A few days ago, the tag bypass was created. Is this a tag we actually need or can I kill it?
My philosophy on tags is that they need to be at least a little specific. Every security question is in ...
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The ununiqueness of UUID and GUID
I recently created the tag uuid because I thought it was missing. Then I discovered the guid tag. How to deal with these two?
They are sort of the same thing (at least they have the same Wikipedia ...
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Can we deconfigure the [configuration] tag?
Currently, 137 questions are tagged configuration. No tag wiki, no usage guidance.
The tag sort of begs the question - configuration of what? I think these questions ought to be tagged with that ...
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Why there is not a PRNG or CSPRNG tag?
I just came across this question: Is getting 1-2 outputs from a CSPRNG to seed another CSPRNG less entropy than getting say 5000 outputs from a CSPRNG and using that to seed?
I noticed that we do not ...
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