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Is the security.SE blog still alive or not? Is BlogOverflow itself dead?

It looks like there is a Security blog with great articles, but it has a banner at the top that says it is an archive. When you click on the banner, however, the About page it leads to has nothing to ...
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Blog - actions required

As discussed previously on this post and this one, the current SE hosted blog service on WordPress is going away - with an ideal timeline of 1 Jan 2017. It shouldn't be immensely complex, but there ...
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Blog is autoreloading when visited (with a scriptblocker on mac)?

When I visit the following link I get eyecancer from millisecond reloads and am redirected after a short duration to a page that tells my that there were to many requests from my IP: (epilepsy ...
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New blog - call for volunteers

From the discussion over on this post, and from discussions with regular contributors in chat etc., it looks like we have a yes to go ahead with a new blog. Discussion on platform is split - so I'm ...
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Do we want to continue with our blog?

Firstly - yes we have a blog - with 91 posts over the last 5 years (although the last 8 months has been a bit of a desert, for various reasons - one being the removal of support for blogs.) Now, ...
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Debunking "Debunking SQRL" - Blog article is misleading

Today I'd like to discuss an article that always comes up in Google when searching for SQRL. Debunking SQRL on the Security Stack Exchange Blog. I find it disheartening that an article that frankly ...
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How to suggest an edit to a blog post?

In QoTW #51 Lotenfogle points out... The only option I saw was to leave a comment, which is more permanent than suggesting an edit feature we have on questions/answers.
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Stump the Chump with Auditd 02

As part of the continuing series of Linux system event auditing I need another spec to bang my head against. What I need is a brief spec indicating what you're trying to accomplish and anything you ...
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Stump the Chump with Auditd

I'd like to follow up my A Brief Introduction to auditd with something similar to what we did with this question Simple example auditd configuration?. So in the answers please spec out what you want ...
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Requests for Question of The Week blog posts

Since starting the Security Stack Exchange Blog on 15 July 2011 we have some excellent blog posts, and a large number of these are from our Question of the Week posts. Going forwards, it is probably ...
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Weekly Question of The Week Submissions: Place a Link to the Blog in the Question?

The weekly question that requests nominations and voting for "Question of The Week" stresses that the top question will be the subject of a blog post. Some references to the blog that are ...
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Security blog - author profiles

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we used to have profiles on our security.blogoverflow.com blog. That is, if you look at any post by me you'll see I have a clickable name which takes you to ...
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Question of the Week Timeline

I had some thoughts for improving our QotW process, in terms of timeline. Currently, the timeline is: Question selection: ASAP (Relative to posting of QotW meta question) Author selection: Midday ...
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Lists of Featured & Proposed Blog Questions

I wanted to throw this up so that we have a place to list proposed Question of the Week Blog posts, for future reference. This question should have two CW answers: Questions which have been featured ...
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QotW (and other) blog post templates

A suggestion for those who write the blog posts (as I am currently just a humble editor): I think it would be a good idea to create a "template" post for Question of the Week posts, and any other ...
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Blog and syntax coloration

Today we released a blog article on a technical subject. It includes C code. I was wondering if this was possible to have some syntax coloration for those block of codes? In fact, we do have a ...
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Do comments work on the Blog site?

I'm unable to post a comment to the blog site. I get an "Invalid Referrer" error where the captcha should be.
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Blog link at foot of security.se pages has incorrect address

At the foot of security.stackexchange.com there is a link marked (new) BLOG. Currently this links to blog.stackexchange.com, but I'm thinking it should be to security.blogoverflow.com or possibly just ...
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Large gap between <li> and page margin on blog

So I have been drafting my blog post for a while and I decided it was time to preview it and... I found that <li> tags are indented quite a way. Is this by design? Or can it be fixed to be ...
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How should we distinguish blog posts in the Twitter feed?

Should we add a hashtag, or other particular prefix/suffix to the blog tweets, to distinguish them from the regular question tweets? If so, what?
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Long blog titles word-wrap on same line.

A problem with word-wrapping of blog titles exists, where long titles will wrap onto the same line, or only about a half-line lower. The below screenshot is from Firefox 5 on Windows XP Pro x86. The ...
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Can we have a 'Blog' button on the front page to take visitors directly to the security blog

I think anything we can do to make it simpler for both newbies and experienced hands would be a useful addition.
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We have approved a blog, now help with topics, logistics and volunteering

Right - we have enough interested folks, so next steps... First - Logistics: @Rebecca - I have been following the blog chatroom and I think we can make this work, but there are a couple of questions ...
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Would we, as a security community, like a blog?

Stack Exchange is providing communities with blog functionality if there is demand and the enthusiasm to create and maintain a valuable blog. Discussion over here on Meta.SO Key points from @Rebecca: ...
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