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No link to the Meta site from the main profile?
It seems that each exchange can, to some degree, customize the new profile display (or even choose not to implement it). What is odd here on Reverse Engineering is that there doesn't appear to be any ...
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Closing and suggesting other sites within SE network (not SO)
At times I close vote a question because it belongs on another site within the SE network. Most of the time it belongs on SO and there's a default entry in the menu under offtopic -> question on SW ...
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Decryption of ciphertext
On both StackOverflow and at the healthy beta Cryptography we get a lot of questions about decryption of a certain ciphertext. Sometimes they are just base 64 blocks, but often there is a bit more to ...
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Let's get critical: Aug 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
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How long will RE be in Beta?
Might be a standard question, but I could not find the answer on Area 51: how long will this site be in Beta? I have just seen another site (Startups) being offline with even better statistics. How ...
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Tag wiki for MIPS assembly / disassembly, etc
I would like to have added [mips]as a new tag:
as quite a number of questions show up when you search for mips - 41 currently, although I think some might not fit under the spirit of such a tag
there ...
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Reverse Engineering license data
I am currently working on a VB3 project (!) and it's hard to get the licenses for all those old VBX stuff. Finally I want to convert it to 32 bit (VB4 or maybe even VB6) and again I need licenses for ...
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Multiple sub-questions per question
I've recently seen many questions posted with multiple sub-questions. For example, see Understanding x86 C main function preamble created by Visual C++ - while sub-questions 2, 3, and 4 are related, ...
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Is RE a good place to ask about HB Gary products?
HB Gary offers tools for memory dumping and memory analysis. Some are even free. However, I have not found any questions for those tools.
Is RE the incorrect place to ask about HB Gary tools? Are ...
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Folks, please upvote questions, too!
I have noticed for quiet some time now that the poster of an answer can have three or more upvotes, but the asker gets none whatsoever.
I think this is discouraging for those asking the questions and ...
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Can "understanding complex source code" be assimilated to reverse engineering?
I had several time questions about really complex code, linked to commercial tools (or not) but with the source code (or part of it) available. But, I am not sure if it can be considered as "reverse ...
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Question Limitations
What are the rules and question Limitations in Reverse Engineering?
Some Questions seems to ask for help in cracking. Is that legitimate? Are we allowed to answer him even if he specifies the program ...
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Are questions about RE applications on topic?
I would like to know in what cases would one want to reverse engineer a piece of software. This is sort of career related but also meant to learn about what kind of knowledge one would get from ...
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What to do with questions of type "Decompile this assembler code"?
Just now, I have edited a question of type "Decompile this assembler code".
It is not the first one and it will not be the last one...
I know that, whatever we do, we will encounter this kind of ...
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Extend the topic to "Software Security"?
I am feeling really good in the RE website, the topics feet me and the discussions are quite interesting. But, then I noticed the IT-security website and tried to see what kind of community was there (...
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Should we have a Featured Tag Wiki of the Month™?
Over the past few months, RE has accumulated a lot of quality content in the tag wikis due to the efforts of many our community members. There have been previous discussions on how to effectively ...
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RE needs a logo header!
I think RE is ready for a logo header. Does anyone know any good logo designers and/or have any good ideas for a logo?
I'm not a designer, but I like the idea of the OllyDbg style logo (I just ...
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Detecting malicious behaviour
Reverse Engineering is clearly a 'gray'-area with law. Thus this is why I wonder, what to do when you detect a string of questions or a single questions that is clearly leading to mal-behaviour.
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Tag wiki suggested edits
I just ran into a problem. On main, the tags exploit and crackme were created, but with spelling errors. The suggested edit approval page didn't show the name of the tag wiki and it was impossible to ...
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What should I do on seeing spam?
What is spam?
I saw a spam post, what should I do? (Important)
I saw a spam edit, what should I do?
How can I help fight spam most effectively?
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Do we want to give out career-advice?
We have a tag career-advice with one popular question. Career advice is generally considered a can of worms and is off-topic across the entire Network. The main reason being that this attracts a huge ...
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What events would you like to participate in?
We recently concluded a two week long Twitter event, which was very successful.
Based on the response, I think it would be great if we had one to two week long events every month. If successful, ...
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What can be done to make the Twitter account more effective?
Currently, the hashtags added by the Twitter bot is just the most popular tag from the question. In many cases, the tag may be obscure, too broad (#python) or different from common usage (#pe -> ...
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regarding editing comment time limit
this question is regarding the time limit while editing comments
if i spend more than five minutes editing the comment i simply cant save the edits
a popup springs up in red color informing me that i ...
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Attaching files (UDP packages)
What is RE preferred way to attach files to a post? Are there any commonly used services? The file in question would be .pcapng UDP packages, but knowing the general procedures would be good.
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Are you following the official RE Twitter account?
If you're a Twitter fan and spend time retweeting questions, you may want to consider following @StackReverseEng.
https://twitter.com/StackReverseEng/
StackReverseEng is the official Reverse ...
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Tracking Area 51 site stats
This post is intended to keep tracks of our Area 51 stats over time and to see our progress towards graduation.
For graduation, the rough criteria are :
Mostly green (Excellent) on the stats page
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How to handle "beginner" questions?
Specifically this is about: How do I get the location of the original audio/video file embedded on a webpage?
I know that this question isn't as deep as others. But on the other hand it is for many ...
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Keeping hardware powered up!
The tag hardware is a very rare tag on RE.SE
HW questions make up just 6% of the total questions on the site. Seeing that reverse engineering hardware is in scope and in many cases, has overlapping ...
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Incorrect positioning of tour button
Take the tour is floating at the wrong place.
The position varies by a few pixels from time to time.
My browser is Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Observed on multiple sites which ...
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What do we need to change about the chat session?
We have had three chat event sessions till now with minimal participation. The maximum number of people who participated was 3 in the first chat session. There was however significant interest in the ...
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Should We Have Reverse Engineering Competitions to Increase Site Participation
A possible technique to increase site participation would be to hold periodic competitions of reverse engineering challenges. The challenges would be custom made for these contests and could include ...
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A proposition for Rising the forum participance and presence [duplicate]
On AshRj suggestion I'm reposing my idea from
How do we increase the number of questions being asked?
I could be wrong but in RE there is a real big gap between experienced and newbies, so what ...
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Community Polls Thread
Welcome to the RE.SE Community Poll thread!
Note: Order answers by active to see the most recent polls.
This thread is used for opinion and usage polls around RE and RE.SE.
The poll questions are ...
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ida versus idapro tags ... the synonym should be the exact inverse, because it's not strictly synonymous
The irritating thing about it is that apparently Igor was the one to introduce the synonym. As he points out in this comment to another meta question:
Actually, the official name of the program (...
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Questions exist tagged 'ida' and 'idapro'
The tag ida is a synonym for idapro, so there should only be questions tagged idapro. However, as the tag page reveals, there are three questions tagged ida. 1 3
How does this happen, despite these ...
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Shorter Magic Link and Onebox
The current magic link can be used by typing [reverseengineering.se] which is a pretty long name. It takes a fair bit of time to type this in comments and chat.
Is it possible to alias [re.se] to ...
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Reverse engineering locks?
I had some questions regarding reverse engineering locks (physical locks/pin tumblers etc). I'm not sure if they'd qualify as questions here though. Any thoughts from anyone?
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what is the time-zone for the "day"?
I've had my consecutive visits count reset several times now, after logging in during my afternoon instead of my morning. What is the time-zone that is used for determining when the day begins and ...
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What is a “closed” question?
Questions can be closed.
What does it mean for a question to be closed?
Who can close a question?
What are the reasons for closing a question?
What if multiple close reasons are used on a question?
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How can I reward a good *question* (not an answer) with a bounty?
The title says it all. If I would like to reward a question, how do I do it? Screen shots of the process would be appreciated.
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Text box overflows into sidebar
The text box now covers part of the sidebar. This wasnt happening before, so its probably because of some recent change.
My browser is Chromium Version 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 12.04.
This behavior ...
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Our Community Promotion Ads
One way we can promote this site is to create a community promotion ad to be shown on other SE sites. Each graduated SE site has a meta question where people can submit these ads (math, physics), and ...
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How do we increase the number of questions being asked?
I noticed that our new question per day is really low. What can we do to overcome this?
Should we seed more content ourselves?
I can think of few newbies questions I can ask an answer myself. Is it ...
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Is there a way to upload instructional videos that will get embedded the way images get embedded?
Is there a method to embed an instructional video clip in a Q&A the way this can be done with images? Basically what I am asking is whether there is a dedicated space to upload such stuff to ...
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