We don't need the security tag

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The tag security exists on the site. It should be an intrinsic tag (blacklisted, but treated as a site tag when evaluating incoming migrations).

Please add to this the information-security tag too... Not sure what other variations we will find, but that's it for now.

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@AviD I think that should be a separate thing. “Intrinsic tag” is specifically a tag that describes the whole scope of the site. information-security is unlikely to come back in a migration (it only has a handful of occurrences on SO), we can simply remove it manually. Also security-effectiveness, which isn't used meaningfully. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jun 6, 2013 at 9:09
@Gilles I think information-security is also a null tag, nearly completely equivalent with the scope of the site, by definition. (Yes there are some areas which are tangential to infosec, or only partially venn-overlapped, but this is the default. ) — AviD, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:18
@AviD Anyway, information-security, what information-security? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jun 6, 2013 at 9:22
@Gilles niiiicely done. Still wouldnt want it coming back, though... If a newbie really wants a [security] tag, let them use security-theater like everybody else! — AviD, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:42

Adam Lear · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-06 00:00:01Z

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Oh hey, this was completed some time ago. The security tag has been blacklisted.

answered Aug 6, 2013 at 0:00

Adam LearStaffMod

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AviD removed status-completed because he wanted information-security blacklisted (it might have come in with a migration, I don't remember).
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Aug 6, 2013 at 0:07
@Gilles Eh, there are no posts in "information-security" right now. Looks like it hasn't come back? Let me know if it does and we can see about blacklisting it as well.
– Adam Lear StaffMod
Aug 6, 2013 at 0:08
I've checked, we had 5 questions tagged information-security probably starting with this one and now the tag only survives on SO (for the next few minutes anyway). Not worth adding it to the blacklist then.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Aug 6, 2013 at 0:13

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