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Should we add ephemeral security alerts on high priority vulnerabilities?
I came across an answer which suggest installing x tool which have a recently found a high priority security risk, so I edit it to add:
Update x ASAP: CVE-2021-nnnnn: High priority security ...
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How can we be safe about code from this site that we install?
There are a lot of people who code solutions and post it in forums like this one. I think, maybe I'm wrong because I'm a beginner, that these people are able to introduce "evil code". Is some ...
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Is there a way to verify integrity of a link in the answer?
I stumbled on this answer just now. It's an accepted answer, but contains a link from googleusercontent.com type of domain, which doesn't say much of itself in URL and I've never heard of it myself, ...
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Ask Ubuntu site security
I am concerned about the site security of Ask Ubuntu. I am not sure everything possible is done to protect my private user data. Canonical is presenting itself to support free and open software. Part ...
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I found a bug on this website that allowed me to log in on my account without a password
I think the title says it all. I am kind of worried about this and where can I contact someone so they can fix this problem?
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how to go forward with answers including ppa's?
I wonder what the policy is on answers involving ppa's.
This question came to my mind, especially after reading many answers on Tor-Browser related questions. In most of these answers, like this tor ...
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Device fingerprinting and user privacy
We often ask to post the output of network-related commands to diagnose and resolve a problem. Even after the problem is resolved, all this information remains available to any Internet user and can ...
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