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Mod deleted a valid answer for a false reason
In response to a recent question about getting people to trust untrustworthy software, I responded with a frame challenge explaining why this software should be considered malicious and abandoned by ...
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Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close
I voted to close a question on the basis that it's asking for assistance writing malware. An admin seems to disagree strongly with my characterization of the behavior as malware, and:
deleted the ...
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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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Practical security question only results in more questions and downvoting [closed]
My question went wrong Emails about bank are either scam or a mistake
And, completely inconsistent, an almost identical question was accepted Sent text by bank I don’t have an account with- Is this a ...
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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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Guidelines for suggested edits being too minor
I had always thought that the community consensus on very minor suggested edits was that they should be rejected [1][2]. Personally, I agree with that (and I believe some reviews by schroeder support ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from ...
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Does the highlighting library support ASN.1?
On one of my answers, I provided an illustrative ASN.1 specification to accompany it.
However, I could not find the right language to use to make it "light up".
Does StackOverflow or ...
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Are we allowed to post CVE numbers of reported issues?
A user posted a log entry: Concerning GET request in logs
I found an associated CVE of the vulnerability trying to be exploited. Is it okay to post and/or link the CVE number for clarification?
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Should we be more strict about analysis of reports from vulnerability scanners?
The phenomenon
We regularly get questions where OP has run a vulnerability scanner on an application and asks for help with interpretation of the results. Usually they quote part of the scanner's ...
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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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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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Is a question asking if old answers to same/similar question are still valid acceptable?
As technology evolves, answers to some questions might get outdated. Now, if I see a question which I know has outdated answers, I can either post a new answer, or ask a question which points out why ...
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Self XSS vulnerability on stack exchanges
I don't know if this should be on meta or on the Information security stack exchange, so please tell me.
With the code snippets feature, you can insert malicious code out of view, and people will ...
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Question closed for being off-topic
My question was closed for being off topic. The reason stated by the moderator was that "This is not a security issue. This is pure TCP/IP".
I feel it is reasonable to consider my question ...
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