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I recently had quite a funny case with this answer that I had written. I wrote an answer that was technically wrong. Overnight, the question hit the HNQ, and subsequently got lots of attention and ...

I've seen plenty of questions now that ask "Is it legal if...", or similar. I feel as if it would be valuable if Law.SE could be selected as a migration target, similarly to how Crypto.SE can be ...

I recently came across this suggested edit, which I had rejected for being insubstantial. When I later looked at how others had reviewed the edit, I saw that the Community user apparently approved ...

We have a canonical question on how to handle a PC and one for servers. Recent activity highlights that we also get questions about "possibly infected" Android and iOS. (More Android than iOS?). ...

Back in 2011, there was a question on meta, asking if physical security questions are on-topic. The general tone of the answers seem to indicate that these questions are welcome. My question now is, ...

Today I flagged several comments on my old deleted question. ~2h later I got downvotes for several old, downvoted questions. Is this some sort of serial downvoter?

I'm aware there are advanced search operators like isaccepted: looking for accepted answers in questions, answers: if the question has answers, and score: to look for post with a score of 1+. I also ...

Currently, 137 questions are tagged configuration. No tag wiki, no usage guidance. The tag sort of begs the question - configuration of what? I think these questions ought to be tagged with that ...

I have a news article I am really trying to recall. The story being a disgruntled employee modifies all email accounts to pass authentication regardless of the given password. While this relates to ...

I don't know if its true, but i'm sure people would like it to read questions, answers and other main text that are in the Georgia font instead of the current Arial. What's the difference? As you ...

I didn't see Jonas' answer because it was deleted. But the link in the comments really helped me understand it better. Can someone undelete the answer? Or explain why it has to remain deleted? How ...

My question was closed because of "product recommendations". The suggestion is "describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve". I described my problem I tried to solve, and ...

I just came across this question: Is getting 1-2 outputs from a CSPRNG to seed another CSPRNG less entropy than getting say 5000 outputs from a CSPRNG and using that to seed? I noticed that we do not ...

A question on the main site by the title of "Has it been mathematically proven that antivirus can't detect all viruses?" seems to have gotten some activity even before being posted. According to the ...

I would like to say that the blackberry is highly obsolete and pretty much dead, nobody longer use such smartphones.

What is is the "You may only load 1 post body every second" message, this issue occurs in the tab votes ([stackexchange/users/userid/username?tab=votes])1 I searched for it and found https://math....

Yeah and so on.. we all know that kind of situations How do we deal with this fact?

It seems that one should avoid question about cyber security tools (Since it is very opinion based. But is it allowed to ask about how specific popular tools work?), no code reviews, obviously no ...

I answered a question with no spam or offtopics. However, my answer got downvoted two times and then deleted. Why delete answers instead of keeping them downvoted, while “wrong” questions instead “...

The question "Why can I log in to my Facebook account with a misspelled email/password?" was asked yesterday, and a very well-written answer gathered nearly 200 upvotes in about a day (I assume the ...

The questions with the homomorphic-encryption tag are often only tangentially related to the topics in the help center. The help center says that "using cryptography" is on topic, but the homomorphic ...

Related meta: Why do people post questions on here they can easily google an answer for? Related help: https://security.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask I saw an instance of a question being closed ...

Could any of these be asked on-topic & answerable? I would really like to know more about yet another vulnerability management challenge currently getting buried in the ever growing pile of issues ...

I am an M.Sc. student in Information Security/ CyberSecurity/ Cryptography. I want to ask for a very famous textbook's solution manual, is it okay? Also, I want to ask for recommendations for exam/...

So I just saw this edit in the review queue: https://security.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/140434 The user wants to add a big warning and a bunch of scrolling distance to hide a flashing ...

If i come a cross a post that have a very niche, and probably new, but still relevant tag, how should I handle it? I mean for situation where we cant reasonably expect lots of questions in that ...

I shouldn't expand this question too much, the title say enough. i noticed that questions which have been marked as a duplicate are still stand-alone questions, but have not been merged to the ...

I once, not long ago saw the tag donut, floating on the right on my screen in the tags. What is that supposed to be?

I'd recently post answers but i think i didn't fully understood or overlooked the question, however when will this ban expire? If you need 50rep to comment, and answering is not possible. BOA = BAN ...

This seems to be the standard dupe target for "how do I hash passwords well" questions. It's a good dupe target, as they go; it's comprehensive, explains the reasoning behind the assertions, and ...

This scenario: A moderator is asking a question like "How to detect a program in Windows 10, that uses Process Hollowing?", but if there are answers to his/her post is he/she able to delete ...

Are there any Review audits like on Stack Overflow? I already did some reviews but never had an audit in First Posts or Late Answers, so I wanted to ask if here are also review audits in the different ...

When typing [so] in a comment, it expands to "Stack Overflow" with a link. I used this in a citation, like [so], to abbreviate the citation. Luckily, you guys are great and allow it to be escaped (I ...

Inspired by this question, I wrote this comment: "I would like to know if this [bit of code I am posting on a publicly accessible SEO-optimized website as part of a high-visibility Hot Network ...

This is regarding the following post: Content-Security-Policy hash of script OP states the following and then goes on to show examples. I've toyed with this for over an hour but still am unable ...

How to Stop Email Spoofing [closed] is an interesting question, even when its formulated as a careless one-liner. But the question is valid, the asker did basic research (he mentions SPF) and the ...

The current name of Apple's desktop operating system is macOS. On this site, the tag macosx is used to refer to that ("Mac OS X" was the original name of the operating system"). But other Stack ...

I recently came across Cash-, who seemingly asked the same question regarding SQL Injection over and over again. Here are the links: SQLI Login Bypass Cheat-sheets Question '=' 'OR' ...

Currently my user page https://security.stackexchange.com/users/5133/curiousguy?tab=reputation contains: <a class="youarehere" href="/users/5133/curiousguy?tab=reputation" title="reputation you ...

I have a “I would like others to explain ______ to me” type question which means I am 'probably OK' but wanted to check. A recent article mentioned suspects performing an action (leaving a phone on ...

A user posted an answer to a HNQ question which was quickly heavily downvoted. When it hit -7, the user deleted their answer then reposted it, resetting their downvotes, with only minimal changes. A ...

I fear that this would be off-topic on the main site, so ask here for clarification. My IVPN subscription expires soon. I have been satisfied with the service and would normally just renew. However, ...

There should be two tabs: history and google analytics, according to https://security.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/site-analytics Instead, I see history and traffic sources. The page title of ...

Why was this migrated? There are other PGP/GnuPG question in InformationSecurity.SE https://superuser.com/questions/1436140/verify-pgp-signature-on-fedora

A general rule of thumb on many StackExchange sites is that "Product recommendations are off-topic". I agree with this stance, as there are so many ways a question like "What is the best ..." can go ...

I recently came across this question, which got bumped to the homepage, as it did not have an accepted answer. The provided answer was very good, yet was not accepted. Why this is the case is unclear,...

There are quite a few questions about http vs. https. I think the most similar to mine is Is HTTPS redirecting to HTTP a vulnerability? My question is: I visited a website where the login page was ...

Post I'm referring to: What are the differences between credential stuffing and password spraying? I don't recall seeing mods move short discussions from answer comments to chat before. Usually this ...

I flagged the following post as spam since it wasn't a question at all. Secure file I hope Seems to be copy/paste of text on a Google webpage. Your account, your data. The Google data ...

In this edit of mine last January, it shows that the tag [dns-domain] was both removed and added. Is this a bug?