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Should we have a tool to mark beginner, intermediate and advanced level Q&As?
I can see advantages and disadvantages to having a beginner, some of which would be:
Advantages
Allows beginners to find existing questions quickly and search in them
Makes it easy for the casual ...
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Who are the notable bloggers in the RE community, and how can we get them involved?
We have established a repository having some excellent questions. Its now time to get the word out about RE.
There are many people in the online world who manage very active and productive blogs. ...
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specific OS-kernel tags or OS+kernel tags?
Is it interesting to use specific "OS-kernel' tags such as linux-kernel instead of linux kernel combination?
references: initial suggestion, then implementation
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Where does the "see also" come from in a tag excerpt?
How can we control what is shown in the "see also" of the mouse-over tool tip that is shown when hovering over a tag name?
An example of this is given in the second screenshot over in this blog post.
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Should we hold a community event in the chat?
There's a chat room for our site and I was just talking to AshRj, wondering how to promote the chat itself. He suggested holding a community event. A moderator would have to create it, but we could ...
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Could someone alias [tag:dissasembler] (see spelling) to [tag:disassembler], please?
Subject line says it all: Could someone alias dissasembler (see spelling) to disassembler, please?
The former just got inadvertently created by someone posting a question. I fixed that by giving the ...
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How should complementary tags be handled?
Consider unpacking versus packer. I think we should either stick to naming the entity (noun) or the method (verb) and there should be one covering the topic and its complement for something like the ...
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Could we rename [tag:windows-api] to [tag:winapi]?
Could we rename windows-api to winapi? StackOverflow uses the latter, shorter form. It would make sense to go with an established standard here, since this is referring to the same thing anyway.
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Should we have a [tag:rce]?
Since the site scope isn't limited to reverse code engineering as such, would it make sense to have a specific tag for questions regarding the reverse engineering of code in particular? I.e. something ...
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Please merge [tag:antidebugging] into [tag:anti-debug]
As the title says: Please merge antidebugging into anti-debug.
AFAIK there can be aliases to tags, so it would make sense to get rid of the questionable (spelling-wise) antidebugging and keep anti-...
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To what extent is discussing a specific target for RE allowed
Let's say I have a specific target that I want to RE (for this question let's take a windows PE executable as an example). Would it be ok to post a piece of disassembly or perhaps pseudo code from eg ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Where are the beta badges?
The private beta is over and no one has been awarded the Beta badge yet. Seeing that some users even fulfilled their commitment within the private beta itself along with being active on Meta, I dont ...
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Highlighting the Tag Wikis
Now posted on MSO
There have been discussions on the usefulness and visibility of Tag Wikis. Two concerns that were voiced were :
Searchability
Visibility
I had some ideas on how to tackle this.
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allow moderated list question [duplicate]
I'm aware that some of you won't agree with this. But I really like to have few questions here like "great RE beginners book?" Or "what is your RE toolbox?".
I'm aware that these type of questions ...
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Add anti-RE information to the faq
I totally agree with Gilles that questions about trying to make reverse engineering harder are appropriate, but shouldn't we change our faq then? It's now:
Reverse Engineering Stack Exchange is for ...
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Is Reverse-engineering also about Anti-reverse-engineering? [duplicate]
I recently asked a question about tools helping me to produce an obfuscation on a binary and I have been a bit surprised to see that people were reluctant to answer such a question just because it is ...
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Wargames, crackmes and CTFs - how to deal with spoilers?
Since this site is public now, I guess we shall start to see questions related to
solving challenges on some wargame, solving a crackme and so on... As someone how has learned a great deal by doing ...
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Reputation manipulation [closed]
As I see people's reputations rapidly grow, and become frustrated because it seems impossible to get to a question first, I can't help but wonder if there is manipulation/cheating going on. After all, ...
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Enable syntax highlighting [duplicate]
For questions like this one which have answers given in code, it would be nice if the site had syntax highlighting available. At the very least, being able to highlight core SO lanaguages such as ...
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HTTPS\SSL authentication for users
As I suddenly figured out, there is plain HTTP used on log-in form to http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com
No SSL\HTTPS implemented, and password in login form transferred in clear text.
As ...
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What can we improve? The site seems to stagnate
At the moment the stats on Area51 aren't all too promising. While we got through the definition and commitment phase with flying colors, right now the situation is suboptimal.
The number of users ...
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What are the rules here regarding possibly illegal tools for RE?
Because of the nature of reverse engineering, we may possibly use tools of gray or possibly illegal nature to aid our work, even if the work's intention is not for illegal use.
I recently posted an ...
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Is it possible to migrate a question from other stackexchange sites to Reverse Engineering?
Just wondering, is it already possibly to migrate questions from other stackexchange sites such as stackoverflow to Reverse Engineering?
Same for questions like this question that have already been ...
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What is considered too broad or too narrow regarding questions about applicable laws?
Currently on Reverse Engineering, there are two questions I'd like to bring up about the laws surrounding reverse engineering, both asked by the same user:
Is reverse engineering and using parts of a ...
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Are questions containing 'what does this do' on topic?
Over on IT Security we fairly regularly get questions containing a believed-to-be malicious code snippet. The OP is usually a web-admin of some kind and has discovered the snippet on his server, and ...
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Are there no special rules for betas?
A beta that just started will hardly end up with a lot of high rep users in a short time frame. Are there any special rules w.r.t. the reputation needed for certain actions or is it the same as on any ...
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Lets develop a Tag Wiki format
As I have mentioned before (and also mentioned by Tim Post ♦ ), I believe Tag Wikis should be developed right from the start. Good tag wikis will help new users to learn the basics and the ...
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tags: 'exe' or 'portable-executable'?
There is currently the exe tag, which is about .EXE files under Windows, which theoretically covers the DOS MZ, New Executable, and Portable Executable formats.
There are already several questions ...
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Do not accept an answer so fast!
I know, you want to accept an answer to show the problem is solved. But really, the quality of the site can be improved when you do not accept an answer too fast.
An answer might be correct and ...
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Should we activate Mathjax?
Mathjax is a way of rendering mathematical equations using markup. I'd like it to be enabled on this site as it is on math and physics? Sometimes it's very hard to answer certain questions without the ...
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Linking to malicious code
I asked a question about obfuscated javascript - the javascript in question is malicious, and contains code to exploit various browsers. In a comment, DCoder asked for the actual obfuscated code.
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should we specify a tag for kernel reverse engineering?
Should kernel reverse engineering have its specific tag?
kernel and user-mode reverse engineering typically rely on different tools, different structures, different methods, so shouldn't something ...
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Do we need the tag tools?
I just came across the tag tools. This tag seems very unspecific to me. Because in the end one can tag nearly every question with this tag. So I would vote to delete it or merge it with some more ...
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Is it OK to duplicate information from SO?
If a question has already been asked on SO, is it OK to repost questions with a self-answer (FAQ style) if they are very relevant to RE (e.g. useful questions about disassemblers, assembly language ...
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Are questions about malware functionality on topic
Are questions about the functionality or workings of malware on topic? This does not include questions about how to reverse engineer malware, but instead asks about specific API calls or functionality ...
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Is asking about reverse engineering tools on topic
I would like to know if asking about the use of a tool that is designed for the purposes of reverse engineering is on topic?
The questions that follow under this category would be asking about ...
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Should questions contain quotes if they refer to external sources?
In this particular case I am referring to Treating independent code as a function in IDA Pro (and I don't mean to make this a pillory at all!)
Original (full) answer as of this writing:
This is ...
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Is discussing social phenomena on-topic?
Social phenonema such as videos going viral or a trend suddenly becoming popular in a community are studied after the fact and involve trying to establish the chain of events and the individuals that ...
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Reverse Engineering SE - Not Yet Ready For Public Beta [closed]
Update:
You've come together and have all done a great job on getting this site defined, Reverse Engineering SE will progress to a public beta in the near future.
Congratulations, and please keep up ...
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How should book/tutorial questions be dealt with?
There was recently a question asking about tutorials on Reverse Engineering. I understand that this is something that will come up quite frequently and will probably be one of the most popular ...
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Questions about applicable, but non-reverse engineering related questions
The topicality of "forward engineering" came up recently in
How does GDB's process recording work? The case was made that the question was not a true reverse engineering discussion and was more ...
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Creation of pluralized tags
With reference to this discussion, tags having common nouns should be in plural form. Certain tags have been created as singular tags, and need to be pluralized:
compiler : 4 questions
linux-package :...
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Typicals of CMSs - off topic?
I've asked this question on RE.SE and got a negative response: 4 downvotes and a note from Anton Kockkov:
This is a question for IT Security site, not for Reverse Engineering.
I see how this is on ...
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What should be the policy for singular/plural tags?
Should tags be singular like compiler or plural like debuggers ?
Alternatively, should both versions of a tag be created and made synonyms ?
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The site tends to attract two different fields of profession
When I look at the site for now, I generally distinguish two different topics:
Questions about computer software, websites, etc., e.g.: Get used jQuery plugins from website
Questions about really low-...
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Code in questions listing
When you have code on the very top of your question, it's being showed in the questions listing. And that doesn't look good:
Ulgh!
Can we have a fix for this? Perhaps extracting the normal parts of ...
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Are source code reverse engineering questions on-topic?
The thing is that I'm developing a platform for software (source code) reverse engineering (static-analysis). And I've added two questions about that: Should I keep parenthesis information while ...
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Is it possible to take questions directly from the area 51 site?
I've noticed quite a few questions whose gists are extremely similar to example questions suggested during the definition phase. Some have been closed and downvoted, others have gone on to become ...
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Are questions about trying to make reverse engineering harder appropriate?
I'm wondering if questions about how to make reverse engineering more difficult are within the scope of this site?
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