Hacker News: bgc

New comment by bgc in "Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker"

bgc — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:48:13 +0000

I wonder how well Cloudflare et al defend against the class of “nobody could still possibly be using this” vulnerabilities.

Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires an account

bgc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015334

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by bgc in "Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps"

bgc — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:07 +0000

Well-written, I appreciated the absence of the kind of over-excited writing you often see in these kinds of posts.

At least with the second app (admittedly judging by that UI) this is a classic case of some team that has only every built apps that sit behind the firewall being made to “move to cloud,” without any understanding of what it means that their code is exposed to the internet.

I’ve seen a lot of orgs “solve” this not by fixing their code but by using Direct Connect to keep everything within the corporate network boundary; since after all compromised VPN credentials are another team’s problem!

New comment by bgc in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

bgc — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:26:02 +0000

This is not a Google-wide thing… this is from Google’s Context-Aware Access product, which is configurable in Google Workspace environments. OP should direct their ire at their corporate IT or infosec team.

New comment by bgc in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

bgc — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:43:16 +0000

The November report mentioned in the article goes into (disturbing) details: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...

New comment by bgc in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

bgc — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:48:06 +0000

That episode is indeed based on this event: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111175/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv

New comment by bgc in "How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS"

bgc — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:43:13 +0000

The cdn-cgi endpoints are documented here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cdn...

New comment by bgc in "Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk"

bgc — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:48:29 +0000

Another fun Zendesk “feature,” that, to my knowledge, has never been fixed is if you CC it on a thread with any other email address that auto-replies, it will get stuck in a loop and ping-pong emails back and forth until the mailbox fills up.

Dark Fiber–An Archaeology of the Dot-Com Bubble

bgc — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:47:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technostatecraft.com/p/dark-fiberan-archaeology-of-the-dot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45492642

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bgc in "How Apple could send democracy to the spam folder"

bgc — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:27:05 +0000

https://archive.is/7uiOo

"Do not highlight any negatives"

bgc — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:16:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22do+not+highlight+any+negatives%22+site%3Aarxiv.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485027

Points: 33

# Comments: 3

New comment by bgc in "A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake"

bgc — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:07:35 +0000

https://archive.is/192Wu

Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days

bgc — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/qualcomm-approached-intel-about-a-takeover-in-recent-days-fa114f9d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604817

Points: 83

# Comments: 78

New comment by bgc in "Please add a "dark" theme for Hacker News"

bgc — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:27:59 +0000

> does there exist a well-defined secure subset of CSS such that we don't have to worry about weird vulnerabilities?

I don’t know the answer, but if it is “no,” would it be feasible to add a few more user settings ala topcolor to achieve a more basic version of this?

CDK Global cyberattack impacts US car dealerships

bgc — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cdk-global-cyberattack-impacts-thousands-of-us-car-dealerships/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738713

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight

bgc — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:34:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/spacex-loses-starship-spaceraft-during-test-flight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38319408

Points: 92

# Comments: 183

New comment by bgc in "Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows"

bgc — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:26:46 +0000

You’ll still have the ability to install arbitrary drivers and support software obtained directly from the manufacturer, this change only means that Microsoft won’t automatically supply OEM driver files via Windows Update.

WeWork Raises Doubt About Its Survival

bgc — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-issues-going-concern-warning-6331bb42

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061358

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bgc in "Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (2006)"

bgc — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:37:15 +0000

Holy moley, my first “real” computer ran 98SE and had BLACK ICE, which behaved exactly the way you described.

I remember I would take the IP addresses of the “attackers” and plug them into a McAfee graphical tracert tool, and it felt like nothing short of something out of GoldenEye.

Thanks for the memories!

Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout

bgc — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:37:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-api-protest-subreddit-private-going-dark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299723

Points: 190

# Comments: 143