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M'vy

09:37

id 0?

In fact, you only got part of the key ID here

pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB4156B9700000000

cc @grooveplex

Anders

@M'vy I saw this meta post of yours from last year: meta.security.stackexchange.com/questions/1715/…

To me that looked like a very good project, with lots of good suggestion. What happend with that? Looking at the tags, it seems like a lot of the easy ones were fixed but a lot of the bad tags where left.

M'vy

I was looking for someone else to coordinate some action. I never went into mass edition of question and did not wanted to start an edit war

I don't know how to properly implement the cleaning in a sensible way

Anders

09:53

I understand. I very much agree that a tag clean up would be healthy, but I also agree it is hard to know how to do it. I have been thinking about starting a meta discussion on how to move forward with tag cleaning, but I am not sure what angle to take.

Having the background on what happend with your attempt is valuable.

M'vy

Yeah, I was in the phase of gathering what has to be done before moving on

but it never came to actually doing it, then it got lost into other things I had to do :)

and people seems to have lost interest in that too.

Anders

Yeah, without interest it is hard to get anywhere. To singlehandedly take on the tag mess is a tall order. :-) Thanks for the background!

M'vy

yeah no problem.

Pls ping me the meta question if you ever start one

Anders

I will!

3 hours later…

Wally

13:10

Q: Detecting a Crypted executable that is supposed to bypass antivirus

I've seen many Crypters being advertised to bypass antivirus and they work. The malware crypted by the Crypter evades antivirus detection. How would you programtically or using a tool reliably detect a Crypted executable? I'm thinking of strings command and other such tools.

2 hours later…

Vincent

15:03

Hello there. We have a Q at GD.SE that is off-topic, but might be a good fit for you. Could some of you check whether you'd like to have it?

Q: How to detect malicious code in JPEG image?

When there was a hype wave around Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, a friend sent me links to two JPEG images: CODIW.jpg, which resolution is 12674x15656 (≈198.4M pixels). COWMWR.jpg, which resolution is 11557x14912 (≈172.3M pixels). Comparing pixels count, second image has only 0.86 of what fi...

resolution jpg

Anders

Looks on topic to me. Possible that there is a duplicate somewhere, but I don't know if that matters.

Vincent

yeah, I already found security.stackexchange.com/questions/106737/…

Xander

@Vincent I don't know. I suspect it's more of a "how does jpg compression work" question than a security question. One moment while I do a quick search..

Vincent

'ppreciated :)

Xander

@Vincent Here's another existing question, the answers of which are relevant to the security portions of that question: security.stackexchange.com/q/120154/12

@Vincent I'd suggest SuperUser might be a better target, because of the non-security aspect. Not sure that's a perfect place either though. My 2 cents.

Vincent

15:14

meh. I'll see whether the Qs you offer actually help the Asker. SU will probably just send me back here--I know how these things go :)

Thanks for the help @Xander and @Anders

....Xanders?

Xander

Ha ha

Sure thing!

Vincent

Yeah, as expected, SU suggests you guys as a better fit :D

Anders

I think you could answer this in an on topic manner without going into any details about how JPEG compression works. So unless @Xander protest, I would say migrate it.

Xander

15:30

@Anders The problem is, that wouldn't actually be answering the question, which is "was is one so much larger than the other?"

Vincent

In case you guys end up wanting it, just ping me. I closed the Q for now. Thanks again!

Anders

@Xander Fair point. I focused on the title, but you are right, it would not answer the implied question in the body.

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