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Can we kill the [data-security] tag?
In looking at the questions using that tag, I'd have to agree it is entirely redundant. As usual I'll await a bit more of a consensus, but I'd be happy removing it.
Rory AlsopMod
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What to do about [tag:nfc] and [tag:near-field-communication]?
To simplify voting I will post my suggested solution here as an answer instead of as part of the question.
I think we should keep nfc as the main tag, and make the other a synonym. Three letter ...
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Spam, spam, [spammer] and [spam]
AviD has turned spammer into a synonym of spam. Problem solved.
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What's the point of tags?
I subscribe to the ones I'm most interested in so they are highlighted, and anti-subscribe to the ones I am not interested so they fade and reduce the visual clutter.
shrug I find it actually helpful....
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Time to file [file] for burnination?
Agreed. I'll make some time later today to update some of them, and would ask others to also update over the next couple of days - not all at once or the front page will be full of these.
Rory AlsopMod
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Do we need both a smartphone tag and a phone tag?
I'd suggest we need both as all phones are not necessarily smartphones. In fact all the disaster folks I work with use non-smartphones (such as the Nokia 6210i) specifically as they do not require the ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Rename [csrf] → [cross-site-request-forgery]
I agree with @RoryAlsop here. Let's keep the main tag csrf and let cross-site-request-forgery be a synonym, just in case.
Just as with SQL, which is rarely ever called "Structured Query Language", ...
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Are [ssl-interception] and [tls-intercept] the same thing?
I don't see a difference in usage. Some questions are even tagged with both.
Since ssl is a synonym for tls, and tags are preferably nouns, I'd suggest to merge them withtls-interception as a master ...
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What to do with new tags that should not be?
If a tag has no categorization usefulness, it should be removed. If a clearly bad tag is used by only one question, you as a 2K+ user can strike it out of existence yourself. (Users without the edit ...
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Ambiguous [image] tag
I think we should split the tag.
I agree. I propose using disk-image for forensic sector-for-sector copies of a storage medium.
Since the bulk of the questions are about "depictions of visual ...
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Do we do meta tags like [homework]?
Absolutely agree, it is pointless and not a good path to go down. I think it was added out of anger, towards an apparently deceitful OP who was trying to "put one over on us". Understandable, but ...
AviDMod
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Remove the `professional-education` tag
Definitely not. We have 179 questions tagged professional-education and it has 4 synonyms in use as well.
This is actually a very useful tag, despite those closed questions you have seen on page 1.
Rory AlsopMod
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What is the point of company-specific tags and should we burninate them?
Microsoft does more than make products. They have security expertise, they have services and documents. Their product decisions affect the industry as a whole.
I immediately agreed with you when I ...
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Tag suggestion: analog-hole
Please update your post with links to ones that you think need it. We can then review, and if it is useful, we can add that tag.
The caveat here is, "if it is useful."
Creating tags that don't help ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Let's be hard on [software] and soft on [hardware]
Is there a subset of security questions that would benefit from the software tag? If not, I agree with you that we should nuke it. I'll get a full look through, but right now I think you are right.
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Rory AlsopMod
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"protection" and "secure" tags
My impression after a non-exhaustive review:
secure is totally meaningless on this site and can and should be nuked.
protection is sometimes meaningful but is not a good tag name. The tag should be ...
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What's the point of tags?
I must admit I felt a bit offended when I read the title of your question. :-) Not sure I will produce a solid answer though.
Tags makes questions searchable. The word time might show up in a lot of ...
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Can we authoritatively merge [certificates] and [x.509]?
NO! x.509 != certificates.
Closely related, for sure, but:
certificates is not a subset of x.509 because, for example, e-passports use the EAC format for certificates.
x.509 is not a subset of ...
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Let's be hard on [software] and soft on [hardware]
I agree with removing the software tag (in almost all cases, this is implied), but I think the hardware tag should remain, as there are a lot of uses for it.
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Limit the [owasp] and [owasp-top-ten] tags?
I think they have to remain separate tags - the OWASP Top Ten is simply one (probably the most well known) of the OWASP activities.
But I agree with you that your cases #3 and #4 would be better off ...
Rory AlsopMod
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Establish [bug-bounty] tag?
I agree it could be a useful tag, but we need to make sure it is used in the right way. There is a high risk that it gets the same problem as the penetration test tag - it is used for question about ...
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When and how to create new tags
Your question is indeed valid - most people either misuse the tags, or misunderstand the concept completely.
Usually, you should prefer existing tags, where it makes sense. Rarely, a new topic ...
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New tag request: Insecurity-Questions and Security-Questions
I think the topic of security questions - e.g. whats your mother maiden name - is distcint enough to merit it's own tag. The fact that there are many duplicates indicate the need for a tag, because ...
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Merge [polp] and [least-privilege]?
“POLP” is not a common abbreviation in my experience. I didn't recognize it in your question before I saw the expansion, whereas I'm familiar with the concept under its full name. So I don't see the ...
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Should we have a canonical question tag?
Let me address the two things in here.
First, we don't really want a list of canonical questions, too hard to maintain as mentioned in previous meta-post here and here.
Second, tags are meant to ...
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