Unanswered Questions
125 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Merge [gpg] and [gnupg]
Unless there is a second definition for the abbreviation GPG that I'm not aware of, I believe the tags gpg and gnupg should be merged as identical (and have one be a synonym of the other, I would ...
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New tag suggestion - OSINT
I find it curious that there aren't any tags for open source intelligence (OSINT) or even threat intelligence (TI). There do seem to be multiple questions that could make use of an OSINT tag, ...
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WPICTF 2018, Fri 13 April 2018 at 19:00 UTC, lasts 48 hours
Let's participate in WPICTF 2018.
WPICTF is a Jeopardy-style CTF and lasts 48 hours. According to their website: The CTF should be "beginner friendly". Most challenges were made by WPI students, so ...
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Pragyan CTF 2018, 2 March 2018 at 07:30 UTC, lasts 48 hours
Let's participate in Pragyan CTF 2018.
Pragyan CTF is a Jeopardy-style CTF and lasts 48 hours. Challenges are from a range of categories like Cryptography, Web, Forensics, Steganography, Reverse ...
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How should the [penetration-test] tag be used?
I see a lot of questions tagged with penetration-test that in my opinion has nothing to do with pen testing other than that the OP came up with the quesiton while doing a pen test.
Some random ...
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Not constructive flag on comments declined
Why were those 2 not constructive flags declined?
First flag
Interesting link, thanks
Second flag
+1 on FDE as practical advice
Perhaps the second has some small value, though to me it still ...
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Why is Security SE Meta dropping SSL/TLS support?
I'm currently using EFF's HTTPS Everywhere plugin to favor HTTPS whenever it is available.
Due to a wrong Common Name being used for the Meta website certificate, the first connection is a bit funky: ...
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Edit boxes do not set a foreground color and thus are unreadable
Several input boxes and textareas on security.SE and meta.security.SE have a CSS problem: They set a white background color, but do not set a foreground color. Thus the text is rendered with the user'...
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Synonym for backtrack
The live CD Backtrack was »renamed« to Kali Linux. There is a tag backtrack on the main site. I'd suggest to add a synonym kali for questions on Kali.
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User quivalent "Vote to close" functionality for mods
As a mod I would like to sometimes just add a vote-to-close rather than singlehandedly close a question. Is there any way to implement a simple drop down option for (normal user|mod) functionality.
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Xiomara CTF 2018, 23 February 2018 at 17:00 UTC, lasts 24 hours
Let's participate in Xiomara CTF 2018.
Xiomara is a Jeopardy-style CTF and lasts 24 hours. You can find additional details on the CTFtime event page and study the write-ups of the 2017 edition here.
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PoliCTF 2017 | Fri, 07 July, 09:00 – Sun, 09 July, 09:00 UTC
Let's participate in the PoliCTF 2017!
PoliCTF a Jeopardy-style CTF running in its third edition and lasts 48h. There are currently 100+ participating teams announced on CTFtime.
Basic info:
We ...
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The bear facts!
As many of you may have noticed, our ursine overlord, Thomas Pornin, has bypassed 200k rep as the big bear and 100k rep as the little bear.
To celebrate these glorious times where the bears rule Sec....
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Other social media options not appearing in list
Not much to say here, I just asked a question and noticed this:
However, these usually work on other questions on this network except here so I am wondering what could be the reason for this.