Timeline for How is a question about a specifically security related tool NOT security related?
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| Aug 22, 2011 at 7:33 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | The question is not an IT Security question - as it stands it is a pure IT question. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 6:43 | comment | added | RobotHumans | but i don't need virus analysis. i need assembly structures directly before policy violation. if i just needed binary instrumentation other stuff would be sufficient. basically what i'm hearing is you can't ask questions because you're smarter than our moderators. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 6:35 | comment | added | this.josh | I think 'OR what tool provides the same functionality?' is roughly 'What tool [for Windows] provides binary instrumentation?' My interpretation is that the function 'binary instrumentation' is not exclusively a security tool. It appears that binary instrumentation is of interest to software companies, programmers, system administrators, security researchers, and computer science researchers. Asking "What are good ways to do anti-virus analysis?" may generate some useful replies. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:32 | comment | added | RobotHumans | valid point. the issue here really is that OR what other tool provides similar functionality in a security context is valid. if it's not, i'm okay with deleting my 10k points worth of answers from other stack sites as long as they are actually gone. make sense? if i can only answer retarded user questions and can't ask a question, the format is useless. this wouldn't have been a problem on securitytube. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:28 | comment | added | this.josh | The IDA Pro question was an example, not a real question. The point of that question was that installing or fixing a software tool is an IT question not an IT security question. A question about finding a tool that does X, where X is a feature commonly used by system administrators, programmers, testers, database administrators, computer science professors, or the like, is an IT question, not an IT security question. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:09 | comment | added | RobotHumans | does the OR what else provides similar functionality not cover it? | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:08 | comment | added | RobotHumans | IDA runs fine under wine with no patches btw. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:06 | comment | added | this.josh | I know you are going to be confused about this but no. Your question is similar to 'Does anyone have a patchset to get IDA Pro running under WINE'. IDA Pro is a Windows disassembly tool often used for examining malware. Getting IDA Pro to run on Linux under WINE would be an activity a virus researcher would perform. My understanding of the threshold for a IT Security questions is not 'would a IT Security profesional know or want to know X' but 'would an IT Security professional know or want to know X much more than other types of professionals. | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 5:05 | history | edited | this.josh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2011 at 4:22 | comment | added | RobotHumans | do you think this one is more acceptable: security.stackexchange.com/questions/6470 | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 4:00 | comment | added | RobotHumans | okay, i thought i expressed the question in the title. the content in the other area was simply a pre-emptive response to "what is fastBT and how is it related to security" | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 3:32 | history | answered | this.josh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |