Hacker News: jegs

New comment by jegs in "Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch"

jegs — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:17:33 +0000

For a country that introduced the concept of talking in elevators and urinals? I'd say drinking in the afternoon is a lesser evil, if at all.

New comment by jegs in "India’s contact tracing app is going open source"

jegs — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:39:50 +0000

All 3 versions are being open sourced. Says so in the article you linked.

New comment by jegs in "How I got my username on nearly every site"

jegs — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:04:25 +0000

It's social engineering. Even I felt uneasy seeing how the author was able to take usernames. However, this isn't very different from other white/black-hat hackers getting into others' accounts by simply contacting support and providing minimal proof.

New comment by jegs in "YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”"

jegs — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:42:00 +0000

I don't think they believe it either. It's just easier to treat people as criminals by default. Why go through the effort of engineering things properly when you can have 10+ cops break down your door and shoot your dog?

New comment by jegs in "A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”"

jegs — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:34:37 +0000

> On the internet, the burden of proof is on the accused.

True, unfortunately.