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This is not my account- everything is messed up- could a moderator please help
I am security_paranoid
security_paranoid is my only account. My name is Harvey.
But let me catch you up to speed.
A few days ago, I contacted StackExchange through their help centre, because I was ...
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Is a question about code to generate passphrase appropriate here?
There are a couple of passprase generators out there, but all (I have found) use English words to build the passphrase. I wrote one using German words. Is it appropriate to discuss this code here with ...
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Google Cloud will soon be sponsoring Information Security Stack Exchange
We're excited to announce that Google Cloud will be sponsoring Information Security Stack Exchange beginning July 8th through September 30th. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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My question was closed but I think it was on-topic (Perhaps because there is no IT asset being protected?)
This is my question: Can the IBAN of the initiator of a SEPA direct debit be faked?.
I don't really mind it getting closed I just want to understand why it was closed. So I won't do the same mistake ...
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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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2022: 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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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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Auth0 will soon be sponsoring InfoSec again
Auth0 had previously sponsored InfoSec from September 2021 to January 2022. We are excited to announce that they will be sponsoring InfoSec once again from April 21 to December 31, 2022. As some of ...
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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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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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Character replaced with boxes in edit view?
What is going on with this question? It looks fine when viewing, but the text in the edit box is... a bit strange. Is this a bug, or has the user engaged in some kind of unicode shenanigans? A small ...
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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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Soteri brute forcing tag edits
Exhibit A: https://security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/149427
Rejected by Schroeder because he thought it was not about MD5 specifically (I thought it was and approved, but I was also ...
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Is this question on topic here?
I have a question about cryptography algorithm difference:
Rhinjael has been choosen over Serpent (and other) for AES. However, Serpent has been considere less vulnerable to attack in theory. But, ...
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