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Quote 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
From the article, it sounds like nothing even remotely questionable was done by the reporter who found the flaw: > "According to the Post-Dispatch, one of its reporters discovered the flaw in a web application allowing the public to search teacher certifications and credentials. No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages."
We've always known that using DevTools was a criminal activity. In fact, the sheer number of people using them places this at criminal conspiracy levels. Better start filing those RICO cases against the browser devs. /s
Quote 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
I don't think I can blame a politician for being technically illiterate, especially one that old. But what the heck is up with the state bureaucrats who report to that guy? I mean someone it the freaking state bureaucratic hierarchy should at least be lucid enough to consult someone who has an actual clue about things as these.
Politician: Socials are on the web site, who fucked up?
IT: the web page is encrypted, we didn’t fuck up, the hacker decrypted the source
Politician: sounds good to me, no fuckup on our part, let’s call the cops and prosecutors
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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.
GOP/Red States are the way they are because the people are too stupid for their own good.
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We've always known that using DevTools was a criminal activity. In fact, the sheer number of people using them places this at criminal conspiracy levels. Better start filing those RICO cases against the browser devs. /s
How dare you did "View Source", you hacker.