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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
#142Why is everyone here acting like the governor is merely stupid? He is not arguing from ignorance, he is arguing in bad faith. Mike Parson wants to feed the narrative that the American free press is the "enemy of the people" because it suits his politics, nothing more. The only message here is "be careful embarrassing fascists."
Nearly all politicians act like this when they're in power. The general public is easily mislead.
HN notices it when it's a tech issue, but it happens in economics, medicine, basically everywhere. They have zero incentives to accept responsibility.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#143> Parson said...the reporter was “attempting to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.” Literally a reporter's job.
This could actually become illegal in the UK. The official secrets act might be amended to make it illegal to embarrass the state...
...because being an embarrassment to the state is reserved for our government
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#144'Parson said Thursday that he wasn’t sure why the reporter accessed the information. He claimed it was part of a “political game by what is supposed to be one of Missouri’s news outlets.”' Yes, everything that makes us look bad is part of a conspiracy by the other team. Ignore the facts, please. Pressing CTRL-U is hacking!
The weird thing is even if this was a conspiracy to discredit an administration... it's a really bad one. Perhaps you could link the security flaw to a budget issue, but I can't imagine something like this seriously affecting a governor's chance for re-election. His response has obviously done more damage than the flaw ever could.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#145> Parson said...the reporter was “attempting to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.” Literally a reporter's job.
This could actually become illegal in the UK. The official secrets act might be amended to make it illegal to embarrass the state...
The fact that journalists in the UK can and have been prosecuted for publishing leaks is completely absurd. Europeans think the first amendment goes too far a lot of the time, but this is the other side of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#146Good. Let this go all the way to the top, this is someone who at least in theory should be backed by an institution (and various amendments...) so this should establish a nice precedence that no, you can't shoot to the messenger. The only "tiny" detail would be how to shield the individual reporter from the fall-out in the meantime.
And while we're at it, holding an office should not protect you from personal liability for the harm done to said messenger during the process.
Terribly idealistic, I know. One can dream... :|
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#147I'm from Missouri, this might be the first embarrassment many of you've seen from him, but there have been alot more prior. Truly not a good look for the state that this guy got reelected.
Same here. And don't look up how he first came upon the job either.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#148After the Affordable Care Act went into effect I signed our company up for our state's marketplace. While browsing our plan options, I noticed the url used a scheme like marketplace.org/employers/341/plans.aspx. Of course, I tried changing the number in the url to 342 to see what happened. To my astonishment, it loaded up the next company's plans, including a list of employee names, ages, plan cost, and SSNs. After I…
I don't know, that sounds like a pretty valid response given that you "shopped a few other companies to see how our plans compared".
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
#149I 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.
I can't stress how differently power works in the Southern States (EDIT: Missouri is a midwestern state officially, but I've always considered it part of the South). It's a very traditional place, where you do not dare contradict, let alone correct, your boss. There is none of this "avoid surrounding yourself with sycophants because they will only tell you what you want to hear" business. There is no upside to speaki…
The south sounds exactly like my experience in two fairly non-political (as non-political as government can be) departments of state government that provide non-controversial social services in a state in the northeast.
Re: Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
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Oh that is so bad. It's events and negligence like this that give credence to credentialing requirements for software engineering.
Imagine if we had credentialing requirements for elected office…
We do. It's called an election. What you want is credentialing requirements for voting.