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Is this bordering on "helping you break the security of a system"?
We currently allow discussions that involve bypassing government censorship, as well as avoiding government surveillance, and even attacking government systems, as long as they are legal to discuss ...
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Is not having an answer publicly available a good reason to close a question?
"When will a vendor implement a new feature?" is not a great question, even if the answer has security implications. Until the information is made public, all we can do is opine.
If there was a ...
schroederMod
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Are DRM related questions on-topic here?
DRM itself as a topic, absolutely is in scope here.
Questions on DRM, however, may be difficult to ask here, as DRM itself is fundamentally useless for most implementations - such as preventing ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Close reason: lacks basic research
I've been feeling the same way, too. It's not about the "too basic" questions (hey, those are great for newer members to practice composing good Answers!), but for me, it's about answers being found:
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schroederMod
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Close reason: lacks basic research
This website is not meant to be reserved to IT Security professionals. Therefore, I think it would be difficult to close a post simply as being a "too basic IT security question".
What may be basic ...
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Are DRM related questions on-topic here?
I disagree with the characterization this the question is about DRM. I agree that the question is tangentially related to DRM, and hence security and therefore on topic, but the question as asked is ...
schroederMod
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What is wrong with this legal question? Are legal questions on topic at all?
Questions that relate to various laws, where the law is the subject, can be on topic (if about security). Questions asking for legal interpretations or applications of the law are off-topic.
Straight ...
schroederMod
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Please help me improve a question which had mixed reviewer reactions
It seems like this was more or less a race-condition, as explained by @tim and @TildalWave in the comments. My question was close-voted due to it's sub-par and unclear title. The title was improved ...
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Why it is opinion based to ask for possible pitfalls of an concept?
The Security.SE Help Center specifically says:
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of ...
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Close reason: lacks basic research
Mouse-over the down-vote button on a question, and you'll see this in the tooltip:
This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.
(Emphasis mine.)
Questions with ...
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How is a question about dealing with a possibly compromised router or modem an "exact duplicate" of a question about a compromised server?
My name shows up as one of the close voters of that question, but I did not vote to close it as a duplicate and I don't think it is a duplicate. I voted to close it as to broad.
Here are some things ...
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Why is this question considered "Opinion based"?
Granted, this one may sound as a product recommendation, but from the
sequel below I'm not sure that the OP really expect an actual name but
merely advices on how to choose.
"Advice on how to ...
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Recent surge in low quality Kali-questions / canonical answer?
I'm not sure I like the idea of having a canonical dupe target for questions that are inherently off topic. That would sort of signal that those questions are in fact on topic, and I suspect it would ...
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How is a question about dealing with a possibly compromised router or modem an "exact duplicate" of a question about a compromised server?
In general, and this is why I agreed with the flags and other close votes, a compromised device is a compromised device. It needs to be removed from service, imaged (if forensic investigation is going ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Can we use information gathering questions
The problem is that this is not a discussion site but a Q&A forum with a specific format. That format sets us apart, but yes, it also introduces limitations.
Take a look at the other highly-...
schroederMod
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Why is the question about suddent large traffic on a GitHub repo off-topic?
Because there is nothing in the question that is about security. This falls under the category of "I see this weird thing in the logs; what is it?"
The question of "why is this being ...
schroederMod
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How to reword to make it on topic?
As I said, we can't provide a full manual on all the different options. You need to narrow down what specifically you don't understand, and, for instance, what more you are looking for from "-i ...
schroederMod
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Question closed for being off-topic
Nope, it's not IP spoofing. IP spoofing is just one part of your imagined scenario.
And it isn't blind session hijacking either, since your scenario is not a man-in-the-middle. If you were in the ...
schroederMod
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Are DRM related questions on-topic here?
I'm going to agree and disagree with Rory. I agree that DRM questions are on-topic. I disagree that asking questions about the ability of DRM aren't of any value.
DRM is often a failing game ...
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Do we close questions as duplicates based on answers?
It can be, yes.
When a question is closed as dupe, it remains as a stub pointing at the duplicate, so anyone who hits the closed question when doing a search finds the other one automatically.
In ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Why it is opinion based to ask for possible pitfalls of an concept?
Then I got complains about it being a "what if" kind of question. That's kind of the case. But still just not because I wanted to create a hypothetical case but a question about "What wouldn't work ...
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Where should this question regarding the viability of new TLDs go?
I think Webmasters.SE would be the best fit. There are a lot of domain registration questions on there and I would expect experts in this field to be lurking there.
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What are product recommendations and should they sometimes be allowed?
“Product recommendation” is a bit vague. Most questions on Stack Exchange take the form “I have this problem, how do I solve it?”. Sometimes the natural solution to a problem is to use a ready-made ...
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Breaking a specific system and How to demonstrate an understanding of concepts involved
IMHO its rubbish, there are three problems here, the first is that there is a large number of users that don't recognize that offensive skills are useful for defense, the closing of offensive ...
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