Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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How shall we deal with direct insults?
I am concerned that this site may go the same way the de.comp.security.* group on Usenet went. They started pretty good, but over time ended up with more than 30% of the postings containing insults ...
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What is our elevator pitch?
Realised we hadn't written an elevator pitch for Security SE (as per the 7 essential Meta questions)
From that page,
the elevator pitch is a brief sentence
that describes what your site is
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Spam vs market research
Where should we draw the line between spam and market research and reasonable questions? C.v. this question
Is it ok to:
Say "Hey is there a market for my product http://example", thus requiring ...
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Re-naming our chat room.
Most other sites have chat rooms with unique names that are related to the site's topic, but don't just duplicate the site's name. Here's some examples:
SuperUser: Root Access
ServerFault: The ...
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Spam Users Posting Links in Answers
Over the last few days there have been a series of users ( probably the same person ) posting answers which barely answer the question and then advertising slippers, jeans or some other junk.
One of ...
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Would someone like to create the security-theatre tag wiki please?
This tag seems to be coming in for a bit of abuse recently, I've seen a couple of questions in the last couple of days that have nothing to do with security theatre are tagged with it.
I've got some ...
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Question Scoping Preferences
Sometimes, when deciding what to ask, the issue of how broadly scoped a question should be is relevant. This would be especially true when regarding policy or standards development as the process can ...
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FAQ: request context and threat models
Perhaps more so than for other Q&A sites it seems to me that context often matters a lot, as does the threat model envisioned by the questioner. Is there a good general way to ask for that sort ...
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How can we encourage "userxxxxx" accounts to fix their usernames?
I've noticed there's a lot more accounts with names like "user1234" around here, than I'm used to seeing at other sites. Is there any way we can encourage these people to create unique, identifying ...
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What are good ways to publicise security.stackexchange at conferences and events
As an extension to this question, we plan to publicise this forum at the B-Sides in San Francisco and London, so are thinking up useful marketing ideas - but thought it would be useful to get the ...
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Should we ban the use of URL Shorteners on this site?
This issue was raised to some degree in another question, here.
URL shorteners pose several risks to users, which we as IT Security professionals should all be keenly aware of and sensitive to.
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Is it DOS or DoS, and should we care?
Just thought I'd throw this out there for consideration.
DOS = Disk Operating System, and is an "acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market ...
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Why are we security.stackexchange.com instead of itsecurity.stackexchange.com?
I'm hoping this question was answered before the domain was made. But, for those of us who weren't around then, what drove the decision in the way that it went? Why aren't we itsecurity....
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how i can contact a moderator to reopen my question ?
I have made a question about network forensic solution on enterprise network adt the moderator avid closed my question because it's think it's the same of another question.
The question is not the ...
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Should we reduce the limits for editing the tag wiki?
Currently when clicking on a tag, and then the encouraging offer ("The cryptography tag has no wiki summary, would you like to help us create it?") you learn that:
Tag wikis can be edited by users ...
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Sponsoring a community member to attend the 2011 Security BSides
The 2011 Security BSides conferences are happening in a bunch of places all over the world:
http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage
We would like to sponsor someone from the security....
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Suggestions for "best" questions
I'm presenting at our local OWASP branch tonight, trying to get more people on the site.
Any suggestions for the "best" questions, that would really show off the benefit of the site?
Nothing trite ...
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What primary criteria should we use in voting on questions?
An odd question, perhaps. But I think it needs to be considered.
Take for example, this question: Merge with security proposal?
As a question alone, in the Meta forums of the IT Security ...
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Belongs to SU or here? Question about STARTTLS or TLS/SSL
I have a question about email security (between user and email server) - about the content, and difference between "STARTTLS" and "SSL/TLS", the options Thunderbird gives for connection security.
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Advertising in Answers
Hi All
I noticed this answer this morning
What are security issues which are specific to cloud computing?
Its a good answer but ends with
'For more info regarding Cloud Computing in India visit -...
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How do you avoid answers with subtle security flaws?
What's the plan to ensure that highly-ranked answers are free of non-obvious security flaws?
A good answer to a question should have two properties: it is helpful, and it is correct. Voting (the ...
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Should we allow questions/answers that appear to include or request exploit code?
I don't speak SQL myself, so I'm not sure if this is a good example, but here is the question that prompted this query:
How to exploit the "PHP_MAGIC_QUOTES ON" vulnerability in order to ...
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Is this the right place to ask about Jailbreaking ipod/iphone/ipad?
I'm wondering if this is the right place to ask about jailbreaking devices such as iPod, iPad, iPod, or how to root your Android phone?
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Do we want questions about scams, phising and malware?
I just saw the area51 proposal scams-phishing-and-malware. Dont we want questions like these on our SE?
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Are copyrights/copyright laws an IT Security Professional's responsibility?
Let me start by saying, I am by no means trying to start a big fuss here, but I blatantly disagree with the communication I shared with AViD in this question, and I'm curious other's experience:
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Linking in Answers and Questions
Hi All
Just a small thing I was wondering. When answering or asking question what is the best way to add a link and what do people prefer?
As in which one of these do people prefer and should it be ...
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Recommendation type questions
After chatting with some users on some of the other SE sites, I heard that questions asking for recommendations of XXX are becoming very popular, and often problematic.
Examples of these are requests ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Is the question linked in the question body on-topic?
I think the question Is it a foolish security move to use Google for search or mail? may be off-topic, but I want to get your input.
In my opinion, this question is outside the kind of questions I ...
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Questions that are more like discussion
Theres already been asked if discussion questions are okay here, but when you ask such question with no definitive answer, when should one accept an answer?
Should you edit your own post with as ...
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Question about MySQL root user password strength - Do we want it here?
https://serverfault.com/questions/210034/why-is-it-bad-to-have-a-weak-mysql-user-password
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Is it a right place to ask about viruses?
I think my computer is infected into a new virus! Can i ask some question about treats of this virus? Microsoft Security Essentials can't find it!
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Where can we go to get more users?
At time of writing, the Area 51 page for this site shows that we have:
a healthy number of questions answered
a healthy number of answers per question
a worryingly low number of visits per day
a ...
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Duplicated tags: forensic and forensics. Can we merge them?
It's possibile to merge these two tags? Theyr meaning is the same.
Also: do you think it would be more appropriate to use the long version "computer-forensics"?
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How and when should we use the Community Wiki feature?
Im wondering when, if ever, we should use the community wiki feature which we often see on SO.
Is it even implemented in our site?
Also have a look at discussion-questions . Discussion questions ...
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Which tags should I use on question about "version tracking"?
In the spirit of this thread, I would like to know if I tagged this question correctly.
I've tagged it as security-awareness, as I think being aware of major updates and security issues of piece of ...
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How should we tag questions about {subject}?
Straight from #3 on the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta, can we get a description of tags and actively work to collapse and edit tags before they get out of hand?
The best way to ...
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Should the FAQ contain guidelines around asking questions that may compromise security?
With the increasing use of social media mining tools such as Maltego should we be stressing that people should think carefully about what they are asking questions on? Especially if they are asking ...
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Merge with the security proposal?
Should this site merge with the Security proposal, and other security-related Stack Exchange site proposals such as Cryptography and Social engineering?
In spite of the previous merges, this site ...
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Where to draw the line between "IT pro" vs "end-user" questions?
I thought this question
(How to open a file from the Internet in a secure way?) would be off-topic, but apparently some people seem to think otherwise.
Where do we draw the line between professional ...
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Should we accept question about making exploit or building malware?
The kind of question I am referring to is a little bit like this one :
Malwares source repositories. Where?
Question that are around the subject of "How can I make virus/malware/exploit/etc." are ...
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So... What should our FAQ contain?
No.2 on http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/
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Security-tagged questions on SO/SF
There are some really great security questions asked on Stack Overflow / Superuser sites, with some really excellent answers. Had this site been around back then, here would have been a much more ...
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Is the site name IT-Security, or App-Security?
Cuz the site is not fully consistent... Most places its "Application Security", as it was in the Area51 proposal, but the logo, the domain name, and the notification email, its IT security.
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Should users say "thanks"
Should users say thanks either in the comments or in the question itself?
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Discussion questions
Are discussion question okay? I'd like to start a discussion on why XSS should be renamed Script Injection, and if there is agreement on that (I've got a few arguments), if and how we could go about ...
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So the million dollar question...with respect to security, what kind of questions are acceptable
and even more importantly what kind of questions are not pertinent here.
I am guessing that questions related to how to implement a very specific security task would still be SO? Or am i wrong?
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