[omnicognate]

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

[pizzeys]

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]

⇡ This is the founder of Drop Table

[postpawl]

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

[yreg]

He wrote a blogpost about it https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...

[mhh__]

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.