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The Memes of Information Security

Meme: Don't be a Dave! Originator: @Polynomial, @LucasKauffman, others Cultural Height: December 2012 Background: One of our most popular questions of all time, with over 17 thousand views in the s …
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Is Security.SE only for professionals?

Shaul - first off, the moderators had nothing to do with the close. It received 5 community close votes. Secondly, there is nothing that says anywhere that this was closed because you were a 'noob' o …
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Congratulations to our third 100k member of Sec.SE (first human member...)

Congratulations to Steffen Ullrich who has just passed 100k! Like the Great and Little Bears before him, this is no small feat! With over 2000 answers, one with 431 upvotes, and four with over 100 upv …
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The Memes of Information Security

Meme: Bears Originator: @ThomasPornin, @ScottPack, @AviD Cultural Height: July 2011 Background: Our highest rep user, cryptographer Thomas Pornin created a couple of distinct accounts with bear ava …
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Do we want hats - 2013 edition

Yes! Gimme dem hats! I want all sorts of winter themed nonsense!
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Zalgo text invades Security.SE

Thanks - this is a good call. Generally, unless a username is flagged as offensive, we leave them alone, however after testing this with a varied set of devices, I'd have to agree - it does break thin …
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Congratulations to Schroeder for hitting 100k

Congratulations to @Schroeder for hitting 100k! Our 5th 100k-er He not only manages to be the most active moderator on Sec.SE, but also has answered over 1500 questions Well done!
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Do we want hats?

In 2011, the Gaming Stack Exchange hosted an event called Hat Dash, where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges): Certain actions would trigger th …
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We still don't have a 404 image

Back when we were discussing site design, @Jin came up with this design question and we do have some answers which could be relevant to our 404 page. I think we need to get something defined, as ours …
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Official Security Stack Exchange Anniversary Competition

As Security Stack Exchange has just passed its 1st anniversary of graduation, we are going to follow in the tradition of other sites and run a competition. With prizes! Cool ones! Obviously in order t …
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Blog - actions required

If we do it on WordPress, exporting from the old one and importing to the new will be simple, as a requirement is that URL post slugs remain the same, however we have had some discussion on host platform …
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Requests for Question of The Week blog posts

Discussion in the DMZ will identify and select these. Please post any question that you feel is of worth and the reason why as an answer below. …
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Is this site limited to discussions of electronic security?

This site is for all aspects of information security - this includes everything listed on our FAQ: IT Security Stack Exchange is for Information Security professionals to discuss protecting assets fr …
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