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26 votes

8 answers

1k views

Why do people post questions on here they can easily google an answer for?

Badr Bellaj

349

modified Nov 15 at 9:37

0 votes

2 answers

33 views

My question was closed but I think it was on-topic (Perhaps because there is no IT asset being protected?)

CommunityBot

3

modified Nov 9 at 8:05

-1 votes

1 answer

62 views

Why my question was moved to another stackexchange site?

schroederMod

128k

answered Nov 8 at 23:25

-1 votes

1 answer

30 views

Can mods delete answers simply because they dislike the contents?

schroederMod

128k

answered Nov 2 at 8:54

2 votes

1 answer

15 views

Should we do "Is X secure for Y"-questions?

schroederMod

128k

answered Nov 1 at 9:05

1 vote

1 answer

55 views

Clarify on why this wasn't a hardening question?

Rory AlsopMod

61.5k

answered Sep 8 at 14:32

2 votes

1 answer

109 views

Is this a security question or a networking question?

Rory AlsopMod

61.5k

answered Jul 26 at 17:29

3 votes

2 answers

305 views

Middle Sidebar Advertising

CommunityBot

3

modified Jun 23 at 14:08

2 votes

1 answer

119 views

Can I ask for research experiment participants here?

schroederMod

128k

answered May 29 at 21:36

2 votes

1 answer

139 views

Should I add a disclaimer to my answers?

UndercoverDog

947

modified May 15 at 12:28

0 votes

1 answer

157 views

My question was labeled Off-Topic. Why?

schroederMod

128k

modified May 10 at 7:46

-2 votes

1 answer

132 views

Why is the question about suddent large traffic on a GitHub repo off-topic?

schroederMod

128k

answered May 4 at 12:01

1 vote

0 answers

247 views

Tag for "group chat" encryption and group key exchange protocols

brynk

1,071

asked Jan 27 at 23:46

2 votes

0 answers

143 views

2022: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Jan 26 at 18:17

4 votes

1 answer

94 views

When reviewing a suggested edit, how do I tell what question or answer it relates to?

D.W.

99.4k

modified Dec 30, 2022 at 2:58

1 vote

1 answer

137 views

Would this be the right place to ask for hint/guidance regarding InfoSec ctfs/challenges?

CommunityBot

3

modified Dec 29, 2022 at 13:08

-1 votes

1 answer

206 views

How to reword to make it on topic?

schroederMod

128k

answered Dec 20, 2022 at 21:47

0 votes

1 answer

168 views

OK to ask if a particuar app store's vetting is sufficient for a high risk app under non-targeted conditions?

Rory AlsopMod

61.5k

answered Dec 19, 2022 at 10:44

2 votes

1 answer

127 views

What should one do when one finds an answer with an example that could create a security issue?

schroederMod

128k

answered Nov 14, 2022 at 0:17

2 votes

0 answers

163 views

Can we make the 2fa tag a synonym of multi-factor?

Anders

65.4k

asked Oct 24, 2022 at 7:40

0 votes

1 answer

183 views

Is it possible for mods to 'force accept' answers on questions where the account of the (question-)author is dead

V2Blast

103

modified Sep 30, 2022 at 10:15

2 votes

1 answer

278 views

Why was my answer to this question about Adobe Illustrator files deleted?

V2Blast

103

modified Sep 12, 2022 at 18:17

0 votes

2 answers

195 views

Someone is stealing my edits

Luc

32.7k

modified Sep 10, 2022 at 16:41

3 votes

1 answer

261 views

Why are there so many already answered 3-10year old posts in the active feed?

schroederMod

128k

modified Jul 3, 2022 at 16:53

0 votes

1 answer

187 views

I want to secure my personal information within a PDF, can I ask how on security.SE?

CommunityBot

3

modified May 14, 2022 at 19:02

2 votes

2 answers

185 views

How is a question about Windows Defender not restoring a quarantined file off topic?

RoraΖ

12.4k

answered Apr 25, 2022 at 18:25

4 votes

0 answers

231 views

Auth0 will soon be sponsoring InfoSec again

V2Blast

103

modified Apr 14, 2022 at 18:10

9 votes

2 answers

292 views

Is Auth0 sponsoring us again?

RosieStaffMod

101

answered Apr 14, 2022 at 16:20

13 votes

1 answer

660 views

Auth0 will soon be sponsoring InfoSec

daveloyall

330

modified Apr 11, 2022 at 20:59

5 votes

2 answers

117 views

Can we get a dark mode?

Glorfindel

2,265

modified Feb 20, 2022 at 14:30

6 votes

0 answers

143 views

2021: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

asked Jan 12, 2022 at 15:08

8 votes

1 answer

74 views

Blog and syntax coloration

John Greene

410

modified Dec 27, 2021 at 22:32

2 votes

1 answer

135 views

Question being marked as a duplicate of another with general troubleshooting steps

Rory AlsopMod

61.5k

answered Dec 21, 2021 at 20:25

4 votes

0 answers

141 views

What to do about the password tag mess?

Anders

65.4k

asked Dec 15, 2021 at 8:25

-1 votes

1 answer

143 views

I want to appeal deletion of a specific question

T.Todua

2,727

modified Oct 30, 2021 at 19:22

8 votes

3 answers

166 views

Should I mask potentially harmful links?

gowenfawr

72.7k

answered Oct 26, 2021 at 0:20

2 votes

2 answers

109 views

How should questions containing spammy and porny links be handled?

John Deters

34.1k

modified Oct 24, 2021 at 3:57

2 votes

0 answers

79 views

Character replaced with boxes in edit view?

Anders

65.4k

modified Oct 19, 2021 at 11:05

4 votes

1 answer

193 views

I'm weirdly blocked on Meta

CommunityBot

3

modified Oct 7, 2021 at 1:06

1 vote

1 answer

44 views

Are topics touching both Signal Intelligence and Information Security / Extraction on topic?

schroederMod

128k

answered Sep 16, 2021 at 19:36

-2 votes

2 answers

194 views

Admin keeps deleting my comment on why I voted to close

R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE

8,326

modified Aug 16, 2021 at 15:30

-1 votes

1 answer

80 views

Practical security question only results in more questions and downvoting [closed]

Niklas Rosencrantz

469

modified Jul 20, 2021 at 2:14

10 votes

0 answers

98 views

Should we deprecate [technology]?

CommunityBot

3

asked Jul 19, 2021 at 8:19

7 votes

2 answers

91 views

Should LibreSSL have a tag?

vidarlo

15.4k

answered Jul 5, 2021 at 17:34

2 votes

1 answer

49 views

Guidelines for suggested edits being too minor

schroederMod

128k

modified Jun 19, 2021 at 15:45

5 votes

1 answer

49 views

Does the highlighting library support ASN.1?

forest

66.5k

modified May 22, 2021 at 1:15

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