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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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I think this old, upvoted answer is wrong
The Answer I'm referring to:
https://security.stackexchange.com/a/5357/61443
My objections to it are:
While the OP is asking about recovering the AES keys, his setup is also vulnerable to a Ciphert …
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Too quick on close-hammer'ing
Question: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/121611/61443
@schroeder close-hammered this question as "unclear what you're asking" within 20 minutes of it being posted.
Sure, it's not a great quest …
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When editing a Question to avoid closure, how far can we stray from the original intent?
I want to generalize this Meta question into a discussion about when it's appropriate to edit someone else's question vs opening a new, similar, question with a different focus. … It resulted in good discussion, but was ultimately closed as off-topic. In an attempt to save the question from closure, one of our experienced users made substantial edits to the question. …
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Book and course recommendations - sister sites to direct them to?
Inspired by this question.
We get a lot of questions for the following patterns:
I want to get into security / some sub-branch of security. What books or courses should I read / take?
These get …
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What's the point of tags?
Yup, I mean exactly that: what purpose do tags serve?
As a high-rep user, I spend a fair amount of time editing tags on questions, and I've recently started working towards the Research Assistant bad …
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Merge [checksum] and [hash]?
I propose that checksum be marked as a synonym of hash.
Checksums are not always hashes, for example parity bits on network packets, but I think that for security purposes, people use "checksum" as a …
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Is this bordering on "helping you break the security of a system"?
This high-traffic question from two days ago, many comments and answers:
How could a public DNS server return bad results?
The question comes in two parts:
How is the ISP achieving this? Are …
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Should we transcribe screenshots of text?
In this question:
How a public dns server could return wrong results
A good Samaritan user @Michael lovingly transcribed out the screenshot of a terminal in a suggested edit.
Certainly text in a …
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Re-opening the MathML Latex discussion
In August 2012, @Polynomial asked if we could get the MathML plugin enabled on this site. It allows the use of latex style markdown in questions, answers, and comments.
Admittedly we have very few ma …
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Merge tags [vulnerability] and [vulnerabilities]?
vulnerability : 209 questions
vulnerabilities : 43 questions and no tag wiki
Merge hammer?
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Canonical answer for "Why not authenticate with the user sending an SMS?" should have its du...
There are a number of questions on this site asking essentially the same question:
Why do 2FA apps send an SMS to the user rather than have the user send an SMS to the server?
here are some exam …
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Too aggressive with "off-topic" comments?
The question: Authenticating a user via SMS elicited a very interesting comment from the OP after a very new user (<20 days) suggested the question was off-topic.
I don't mean to kick a hornet's n …
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