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Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by cortesoft »

jrs235 wrote: post #37
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #4

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) .. vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate .. anyone who aided the publication in its "attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." Embarrassing governments is the natural outcome of the press doing it's job. This is what the extra constitutional protections are for.

This is why my outlook on the future is growing dim. Politicians are threatening revenge, using the power and purse of the state, against people who embarrass them.

Politicians are always threatening revenge for stuff like this, for as long as there has been politics.

It is only concerning if the threat is successful.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by not2b »

weatherlight wrote: post #26
CivBase wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of weird. After all, it's not like the governor is directly responsible for the flaw. Even if his opposition could have indirectly linked his administration to the flaw, his response has certainly done far more damage to his reputation than that ever could.

Most likely voters don't understand how computers work. I'm not sure it'll matter much.

For more complex cases this could be an issue, but this one is dead simple: you could do "view source" and see teachers' social security numbers. If they go to trial this case will be laughed out of court.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by c-swa »

kizer wrote: post #53

I think the governor ought to resign. He’s taking something that is, ultimately, HIS fault and trying to pin it of course on “the media”. The SSN numbers were in the page; they were in the source code. “View source” is not decrypting a webpage. God, I know he just has no technical understanding but even then he should be smart enough to get the details and realize they weren’t “hacked”. This person clearly doesn’t un…

As a citizen of the pitiful state, we tried to vote him out last election cycle. He wasn’t even elected before this, something along the lines of Nixon’s transfer of power to Ford is what happened in my state.

Yet he was re-elected.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by nerdawson »

newsbinator wrote: post #35
diegorbaquero wrote: post #7

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million Talk about waste of resources.

I mean it wouldn’t be a weekend fix because it’ll have to involve an audit of all existing systems to identify where else similar tomfoolery occurred. But 50 million is a high estimate.

30 minutes removing a piece of output: $100

Knowing where sed output is generated: $49.9999M

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by not2b »

nostrademons wrote: post #32
Bluecobra wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :(

Your SSN was your driver's license number in 29 states until 2004, when Bush outlawed the practice. Many, many institutions in the USA are built on it being a high-trust society. Now that it's falling into a low-trust state, we can expect those institutions to fail, and perhaps the state to as well.

Kind of a nitpick, but presidents don't outlaw things. Laws passed by Congress do that, and you're right, it was in 2004. Bush signed the law, but it passed by a huge majority.

https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_010705.html

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by bee_rider »

treeman79 wrote: post #41
weatherlight wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most likely voters don't understand how computers work. I'm not sure it'll matter much.

I’m fairly sure he doesn’t understand. Language used makes it sounds he has no clue how html works. Back in 90s, I was constantly being accused of hacking things just for knowing how to build a website. This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not. I learn to keep my mouth shut about what I could do unless I was sure it was a tech savvy crowd. This dude…

> This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not.

Given the way things are going, perhaps we should revisit this decision. It seems that there's a population that isn't quite ready for this level of access to [mis]information.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by handrous »

treeman79 wrote: post #41
weatherlight wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most likely voters don't understand how computers work. I'm not sure it'll matter much.

I’m fairly sure he doesn’t understand. Language used makes it sounds he has no clue how html works. Back in 90s, I was constantly being accused of hacking things just for knowing how to build a website. This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not. I learn to keep my mouth shut about what I could do unless I was sure it was a tech savvy crowd. This dude…

> This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not.

Clearly, people answered those polls incorrectly.

It should definitely not be allowed.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by nostrademons »

not2b wrote: post #65
nostrademons wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your SSN was your driver's license number in 29 states until 2004, when Bush outlawed the practice. Many, many institutions in the USA are built on it being a high-trust society. Now that it's falling into a low-trust state, we can expect those institutions to fail, and perhaps the state to as well.

Kind of a nitpick, but presidents don't outlaw things. Laws passed by Congress do that, and you're right, it was in 2004. Bush signed the law, but it passed by a huge majority. https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_010705.html

I'd initially phrased it "Bush signed a bill that outlawed...", which is much more correct, but is also an awkward sentence construction to read. Figured people would understand what I meant.

...this is also an apropos discussion for this topic, where the Missouri governor is framing this discussion in a way that's technically false but is going to score points with his constituents.

Re: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting

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Post by kasey_junk »

NoGravitas wrote: post #60
kizer wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Thank you nosy media. This anti-press stuff started with Trump. Terrifying how authoritarian the right has become. Reporters, please continue “embarrassing” all states. The sane leaders and citizens will be thanking you.

> This anti-press stuff started with Trump. * gestures vaguely in the direction of Richard Nixon, waits for historians to chime in with earlier examples.

If ‘kizer had said “was extremely increased” by Trump it would be an accurate statement.

It’s frankly one of the planks of the shadow platform of the Trump Republican Party that journalists are enemies.

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