> Parson said...the reporter was “attempting to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”
Literally a reporter's job.
Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
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Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#22> No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages. If it was in the HTML source code, then it was publicly visible, so it is unclear what the article is trying to say.
Every browser have access to the HTML source, even it is merely right click here and there. If the SSN is in the HTML source, then the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. Of course, accountability is not part of their tenet, it is too foreign for them.
And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet.
I forgot to add one more thing. Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I wonder how mcuh scammers/ID theft scrapped the data before this come to light?
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#23Tell me you don't understand computers without telling me you don't understand computers.
Tell me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state without telling me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state.
Authoritarian blue states do this crap too. This has nothing to do with the set of policy positions on your party's official platform and everything to do with being a totalitarian jerk, a characteristic that abounds among politicians and high level government officials in general across many parties and nations.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#24The reporter hacked our water system, maliciously held his hand under the faucet and then revealed to us that the water was WET!
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#25Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy: "In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.” I guess webpages are kinda like encryption for idiots.
If it is served via https, it is encrypted.
Edit: sorry, forgot the /s
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#26Prosecuting people for responsible disclosure? This governor is a fricking idiot.
When idiot directs prosecution it becomes a crime on its own.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#27FYI the "Governor" is Mike Parson
"As governor, Parson signed a bill criminalizing abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy and opposed Medicaid expansion. He oversaw the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where he issued a temporary stay-at-home order in April 2020, allowed schools districts to decide whether or not to close, and limited postal voting during the 2020 U.S. elections. Parson also oversaw Missouri's reaction to the George Floyd protests, during which he pledged to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple involved in the St. Louis gun-toting controversy, if they were convicted of any crimes; he issued their pardons in August 2021."
Sounds like a great guy.
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#28This is probably unpopular, but I want to see this go to court so that this moron can be exposed for all to see.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#29This is probably unpopular, but I want to see this go to court so that this moron can be exposed for all to see.
Best outcome would be for the courts to dismiss the case outright. (Bonus points for snark against the governor)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state without telling me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state.
Authoritarian blue states do this crap too. This has nothing to do with the set of policy positions on your party's official platform and everything to do with being a totalitarian jerk, a characteristic that abounds among politicians and high level government officials in general across many parties and nations.
It’s a consequence of having people 80 years old who can barely write an email and still use Internet Explorer on AOL run things. Party is irrelevant in this case for sure