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Amazing. I would absolutely love to sit down with the Secretary of State and test their knowledge of what does of does not consist of of computer.

• omnicognate 3y ago
  Assuming this means the Secretary of State for Business and Trade (the UK has 17 Secretaries of State), the current one has a degree in computer systems engineering and has worked as a software engineer [1], so she probably has a fairly good idea. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch
  • pizzeys 3y ago
    I didn't know this, and have made the same snarky joke in dumb interviews about the company registration etc. - that's very cool and I will eat my words.
    • yreg 3y ago
      ⇡ This is the founder of Drop Table
      • postpawl 3y ago
        You’re sure it wasn’t just comment on the original thread? Looks like it was submitted by someone else?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494
        • yreg 3y ago
          He wrote a blogpost about it https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-house/ https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
  • mhh__ 3y ago
    She somehow got away with hacking into a rivals computer/server — she would contest the use of the word hacking but by the wording of the computer misuse act it's what she did.