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Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting
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#12Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million Talk about waste of resources.
I could totally fix it for $49 million. /s
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#13Oh hey, my home state is on Hacker News! Oh... sigh.
Like most Missourians I know (mostly who have left their state though), it's fair to say that you've transcended where you're from.
Thanks for all you've done -- I use your work daily.
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#14Apparently, the SSNs were all embedded directly in the HTML file. Like … what?
When I was a student at DeVry University (a national for-profit college with 40 campuses) your SSN was your student ID. This wasn’t corrected until 2002 or 2003. :(
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#16Is this the beginning of the War on Developer Tools?
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#17> “And then to react in this way where you don’t say ‘thank you’ but actually turn on the reporter and researchers and go after them…it’s just weird.” it's not "weird", it's an elected official trying to deflect from being exposed as completely endangering the PII of state employees. while trying to bring charges here is ridiculous, it might not be the case in a few years as we watch the continued crumbling of instit…
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#18Is this the beginning of the War on Developer Tools?
Not likely. More likely the start of law suits against information technology owners who provide insecure access and threaten people.
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#19Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million Talk about waste of resources.
I would absolutely love to know who provided that estimate and how they arrived at that number. I understand that issues are often far more complex than they appear but this just seems ridiculous.
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#20> “And then to react in this way where you don’t say ‘thank you’ but actually turn on the reporter and researchers and go after them…it’s just weird.” it's not "weird", it's an elected official trying to deflect from being exposed as completely endangering the PII of state employees. while trying to bring charges here is ridiculous, it might not be the case in a few years as we watch the continued crumbling of instit…
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