Questions tagged [scope]
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Regarding Our Scope: What's Acceptable, What's Not
This has been asked, but this will be a list rather than a question (hence I recommend everyone CW's their responses).
Regarding this: What about Physical Security?
What specific topics and types of ...
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Code review / Deobfuscation: Why is it considered off-topic here?
I viewed the help center multiple times and, unless I'm missing something, I didn't see anything related to code-review being off-topic, so all this time, I assumed it was allowed here.
Let's take ...
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Is asking a question about the legality and ethics of hacking back out of scope for this forum?
I've posted a question about the usefulness of hacking back to corporations, asking the question to be taken apart from legal and ethical concerns. The legal and ethical concerns are an interesting ...
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Is Security.SE only for professionals?
I recently asked a question that made it to "Hot Network Questions" and picked up a huge number of views, upvotes and favorites in a very short time.
The moderators put it "On Hold", because the ...
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Is there any aspect of computer forensics that is off-topic for IT Security?
There is a proposed Stack Exchange site about Computer Forensics. Are there any questions there that would not be on-topic on IT Security?
I'd say no, but I'd prefer to have confirmation (or ...
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Should we be more strict about legal questions
Questions like "Is it legal to do X?" or "how to do Y legally ?" are quite frequent on the site and they benefit no one - most of them get closed pretty quickly but still waste everyone's time, ...
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IT security or Security only?
Just a thought, the site is security.stackexchange.com but the logo in the header of the page clearly says 'IT Security'.
Since a broad spectrum of questions regarding physical and procedural ...
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