Unanswered Questions
116 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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You're making a difference!
Occasionally, we receive some e-mails that really make us proud of doing the job we do here, thanking us for the knowledge this site, along with a few others on the network, has made available. These ...
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Please do not dump Wikipedia into tag wikis
Please do not populate tag wikis by copying text from Wikipedia.
Reviewers, please reject tag wiki suggestions that are copied from Wikipedia or other sources, or more generally that suggest content ...
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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 ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Information Security's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for ...
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Praise the day! Our ursine overlord has brought more glory than ever!
Thomas Pornin, our ursine overlord has reached the milestone of 200,000 reputation on Sec.SE!
Before we delve into the bear's amazing here are some facts about his account(s):
The bears are the only ...
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Why is "citizenfour" a tag?
I understand that people might reference the movie in a question. But shouldn't the tags for that question be related to the security technology/technique they're asking about, and not which movie it ...
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Google CTF 2017, 17 June 2017 at 00:00 UTC, lasts 48 hours
Let's participate in Google CTF 2017.
The CTF will begin on 17 June 2017 00:00:01 UTC and ends on 18 June 2017 23:59:59 UTC.
As usual, we will play as team sec.se, but unlike previous CTFs, because ...
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Merging [burp] and [burpsuite]?
Aren't these two tags actually the same thing?
burp, 57 questions, 9 followers:
a popular platform for performing security testing of web applications. It can also be used by a malicious party to ...
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Migration path to crypto.se
Crypto.se is graduating. Does that mean we can finally add an official "vote-to-close" option for our fourth-most-popular migration target?
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Questions relating to use of hacking tools described in a non-hacking scenario
So there's a couple of questions over on the main site that have either been closed or have multiple close votes that essentially (to me) talk about using "offensive" security techniques (as opposed ...
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Auth0 will soon be sponsoring InfoSec
We're excited to announce that Auth0 will be sponsoring InfoSec beginning September 14 through December. We wanted to give you a heads up and walk you through what it will look like.
How and where ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election Results
IT Security's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for volunteering, and ...
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China tag has to go
china seems to be the only country tag. china-firewall would be more useful, but it seems that only one of the three question is referring to it. Such a categorization is just not useful.
Can we ...
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Should we deprecate [technology]?
I believe it's pretty self-evident that technology is rather generic at best. The tag currently has four questions, none of them pretty good. Let's have a look at the four burnination questions:
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