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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?

I've seen several questions from people whom I'd generally not describe as "Information Security Professionals" which asked if their personal device is infected by malware. Are these questions ...

My this question is no longer in the scope since the service has become obsolete. So, I just found that someone has already voted to close the question as off-topic with good reason: I'm voting to ...

I recently stumbled upon this edit with the following comment 仕方が無い. Which google translate inform me transliterate to Shikata ga nai. While a descriptive comment for the edit performed (correcting ...

Recently I answered a question where the password was sent to the users email in plain text. Technically this means the password is stored in two ways, Plain Text - which was sent to the user (the ...

I have a question about my Information Security Stack Exchange post: What’s the best way to report an IP address from Romania? The mod that deleted my answer is mad at me because I told him he marked ...

I have a question about my Information Security Stack Exchange post: USB Drive for Bad USB How is that post off topic? I asked about a device used for pen testing.

Today a question mentioning CVE popped up. I would have assumed that what CVE stands for and what it actually is would be common knowledge on a Q&A-site focused on IT security (maybe I'm biased ...

Feeling a bit hesitant rolling back an edit by a moderator, but on this question , this edit by a moderator invalidates this answer. My understanding across SE is that such edits are not okay (have ...

I was going to ask a question about how to get user buy-in to some security changes I'm making at work. I know what changes I want to make, how, and why, but I am looking for advice on how to show ...

The question How to prevent users from executing commands through browser URL has an answer which IMO does not provide the answer to the question, because the "how-to" information what was asked is ...

The comments on this question were recently purged - but only partially. Some of the subsequent comments devolved into Q&A, so I understand why some of them may have been purged. But others of ...

Before I posted, I wanted to make sure it would be acceptable? If not, is there a better site I could look for advice from the community?

Source post on hold: for reference The entire post was about hardening Chrome, referencing vulnerabilities, and offering solutions. He does not believe hardening chrome against the latest TLS_RSA, ...

There was a vulnerability in Tor Browser not long ago. After updates it was enabling javascript automatically without any warning whatsoever. I want to find out whether it was intentional or not. ...

2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :) What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads ...

Question: Hacked aiming xgirlfreind The answer was deleted by a moderator, but I do not understand why. It has some humour/sarcasm, but it does make an attempt at answering the question. I doubt the ...

I just asked a question regarding old fashioned paper, ink and handwriting. I notice that there are many other questions on the site concerning "analog" information security, such as involving ...

I asked a question about a specific feature (CIDR-Binding) of a security tool. It was a specific question with a specific answer about a security tool, which I was able to answer later by diving ...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...

I asked a question on stack exchange meta recently for recommending a site for my question and they suggested Information security. Question link: Where to ask about improvements for a security ...

This answer was edited in such a way that it removed the context for its comments. The original answer contained a political spiel. While political spiels do not belong in answers, and its removal ...

From time to time there are questions about "operational security" around like: Search for military installed backdoors on laptop Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize ...

In response to one of my answers, a user took one part of my answer, declared that my including that one part means that "your answer [is] all about this one weird quirk of this one" part and stated "...

There are a number of questions on this site asking essentially the same question: Why do 2FA apps send an SMS to the user rather than have the user send an SMS to the server? here are some ...

The image tag is currently used for: the picture kind of images forensic images to 'image' a computer in the sense of writing a disk image to it And I'm surprised nobody referred to iso(-like) files ...