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Re:How I got my username on nearly every site by nikanj on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:48AM (#20459422)
”It was so easy to break into these houses, and I felt discomfort with the low quality of locks used”

All of that fluff does nothing to cover up what an absolute dick move this was.

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Re:How I got my username on nearly every site by onli on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:51AM (#20459456)
No, breaking in a house is completely illegal and most of the time unethical. Claiming a username for yourself has a long tradition (fortified by sci-fi and cyberpunk novels of the 80s and 90s) and is not at all that clearly a bad thing.
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Re:How I got my username on nearly every site by jegs on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:04AM (#20460207)
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.
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