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Confused governor says looking at webpage's HTML is criminal hacking:
Gov. Mike Parson is sick and tired of all these sophisticated, no-good hackers and he's not going to take it any more. It's too bad the Missouri Republican has no idea what he's talking about.
During a Thursday press conference, the confused elected official lashed out at a journalist who reported a vulnerability in an official Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website. The reporter, notably, waited until officials fixed the error before publishing the story. The flaw? The website apparently included teachers' Social Security numbers in the HTML.
"Though no private information was clearly visible nor searchable on any of the web pages, the newspaper found that teachers' Social Security numbers were contained in the HTML source code of the pages involved," reported the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Parson, who apparently has never heard of "view source," obliquely threatened the Post reporter with prosecution.
"The state is committing to bring to justice anyone who hacked our system and anyone who aided or encouraged them to do so — in accordance with what Missouri law allows AND requires," wrote Parson.
[... - plenty snipped - ...] Parson, in other words, has no idea what he's talking about.
canopic jug augments that with the following other sources:
Governor Mike Parson wishes that ctrl-u or f12 will become illegal. This was actually a breach of personal information, including SSANs, for over 100,000 people.
https://text.npr.org/1046124278
https://www.salon.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-threatens-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-found-security-flaw-in-state-site_partner/
https://itwire.com/security/missouri-goes-after-man-who-looked-at-source-code-on-state-site.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/missouri-governor-teacher-data-hacking-1242493/
https://coldstreams.com/2021/10/14/no-it-isnt-missouri-governor-says-viewing-html-source-code-containing-private-data-the-state-published-on-every-page-is-a-crime/
https://abc17news.com/news/missouri/2021/10/14/gov-parson-threatens-legal-action-against-reporter-who-exposed-flaw-on-state-education-departments-website/
https://heavy.com/news/gov-mike-parson-html-source-code-decoded-ssn/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @08:47AM (21 children)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @10:46AM (19 children)
oh, you mean like the US president who asked about injecting bleach into veins, during a live press conference?
governors gotta governate...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 18 2021, @01:43PM (17 children)
That TDS has eaten your brain away, AC - along with the brain of whoever modded you up.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-check-no-trump-did-not-tell-people-to-inject-themselves-with-disinfectant-or-drink-bleach [dailywire.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Monday October 18 2021, @02:07PM (7 children)
He did recommend injection, it's just unclear from his incoherent ramblings whether he meant intravenous injection or else flushing the lungs with it or something else. Either way it doesn't matter.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 18 2021, @02:23PM (6 children)
"So it would be interesting to check that." is not equivalent to saying "we need to do that". Read the quotes again. You're right that he rambles around in that interview, disjointed and ridiculous sounding. He's trying to keep up with the smarter kids, and too dumb to sit down and shut up. But he DID NOT tell people to inject bleach.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @03:31PM (2 children)
It's a new language forming. Call it TDS English. Where Trump saying that voters need to know their votes will count turns into "Trump urges Republicans not to vote".
(Score: 1, Troll) by DannyB on Monday October 18 2021, @04:21PM
Here are some facts for you. [businessinsider.com] And some more facts. [yahoo.com]
Here are my predictions:
1. Nobody backs the orange one's big lie about the 2020 election
2. Republicans dutifully sit out the 2022 and 2024 election because
godTrump told them to3. Weeping and
wailingwhaling about how the 2022 and 2024 elections were stolen! Massive conspiracy! Election fraud! Blame the voting machine manufacturers! etc.If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:15PM
I don't understand this Trump Derangement Syndrome. Is it like Projection?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection [wikipedia.org]
Like when you say the "other side is deranged" while meaning themselves are the ones deranged? The definition is rather plain
I see the TDS everywhere, where the so called "Trump Supporters" cannot act rationally
* vaccines
* the so called "critical race theory" or at least what they are fed it to be
* China
* COVID
* global warming
and the list goes on. Rational thought means you act with FACTS on your back. Nothing from the so called "Trump Supporters" is backed by actual facts but irrational fears and innuendos and talking points of the far-right authoritarians. And if you try to use FACTS, these so called "Trump Supporters" are the first to employ their "Cancel Culture".
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpist-lawyers-lin-wood-tell-georgia-republicans-dont-vote-in-the-senate-runoff [thedailybeast.com]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024 [thedailybeast.com]
FACTS. Or is english spoken by those deranged by Trump no longer logical? I hear Nazis are still trying to find Hitler tunnels in Antarctica. And of course, he's still alive. Like that type of derangement??
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/weird-antarctica---the-truth-behind-secret-nazi-bases-and-aliens/12325562 [abc.net.au]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @03:38PM
The horrified look on Brix's face when he asked her that suggests otherwise for the intent of the question.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @08:35PM (1 child)
I am so happy to see further evidence that Runaway1956 does not like ex-impeached President Trump, and did not vote for him, and would only defend him for having said really stupid things by citing the DailyWire rightwing demented website. Yeah, if only there was some way we could inject bleach, or very strong light, or nuclear bombs. Oh, and since Trump is the best-est precendent ever, the election must have been rigged! Such a simple genius! What a maroon!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @03:03AM
Republicans have become toddlers. Tantrum throwing reality denying toddlers. Bad news is they can purchase guns. Good news is they don't actually want consequences for their choices so most will not go on murder sprees.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Monday October 18 2021, @07:19PM (8 children)
TDS is something that Trump supporters suffer from, because it is the only explanation of why they still defend and support him.
He represents Satan more than he represents Jesus, so Christians are full of shit when they put him up on that pedestal.
You know what he said. You can be upset about it because it makes him look a total fucking uneducated clueless moron, and therefore your choice in supporting him feel judged, but don't deny reality dude.
That's what TDS is, the pervasive denial of reality about what Trump actually is. A selfish uneducated blowhard and bully who only looks out for himself and nobody else. I saw that in 2015, which was why I had to vote for Hillary. I chose the shit sandwich instead of the orange anus :)
We both know that shit sandwich would've at least gone with science instead of political expedience and not been rambling on about insane theories like disinfectant being injected into people.
I don't expect you to see reality though. You know, of course, the Emperor is wearing clothes right? The best clothes of course.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 18 2021, @10:42PM (7 children)
*yawn*
Read the exchange from which the "quotes" are taken. Read it a couple of times. Trump doesn't say what is attributed to him. Yes, he sounds stupid, he's in over his head, he blabbers, but he simply did not say what liberals claim that he said. But, you know how the Big Lie is - you repeat it often enough, loudly enough, and the sheep all believe it.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Monday October 18 2021, @11:25PM (6 children)
Don't need to read it. I watched it on TV and saw the faces on the people that, for whatever reason, were too timid to correct him in real time. Once people called him out on his fucking idiocy, he tries to pivot and claims it was a joke. So everything is either a joke, an immature attempt to trigger the libs, or double-down on something the experts don't support like the malaria/parasite medicines. Remember, he made the whole thing political when it never needed to be. He did. That info is not delivered to me via excerpts or biased reporting, but video recordings of the man speaking for himself.
He doesn't just sound stupid, he IS stupid. If he had a modicum of intelligence, he would surround himself by people smarter than him, and actually listen to them. Instead he has to bad mouth them and compete with them, because he has to be the smartest person in the room otherwise his ego takes to much of a hit for him to be functional. He can't be wrong, somebody else has to be, and he will fight and lie till death before acknowledging that he was wrong.
He's a true piece of shit on so many levels, and that's why Trump supporters suffer from TDS and not the other way around. I'm not a fan of democrats, I'm not a liberal, not a fan of Obama or Hillary, but I'm REALLY not a fan of people like Trump. It wouldn't matter if he labelled himself liberal, libertarian, progressive, green, democrat, he is just a vile piece of shit.
Yet, despite how terrible of a person he is, Republicans have made them the Messiah capable of no wrong.
What concerns me is how many people are unable to see the man for what he is, all politics aside.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @01:02AM
I want everyone to notice that Runaway just used scare quotes to dismiss the literal words that came out of his mouth. Now literal quotes are not even quotations anymore, just "quotes." But you also have to appreciate how the great teller-of-how-it-is needs people to tell you what he "really meant" because he doesn't actually mean what he literally said.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by deimtee on Tuesday October 19 2021, @01:44AM (4 children)
I watched that speech. My understanding of what he actually meant was "Wouldn't it be nice if we could find something that would kill this virus (inside the lungs) the same way bleach or UV does (outside the lungs)."
A reasonable sentiment, if not the sort of statement you should be making in a supposedly factual press conference.
The TDS is that the media took the absolute worst possible interpretation of what his rambling statement meant and endlessly hyped it without quoting it until people believed that he actually said "you should inject bleach into your veins".
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 19 2021, @10:02AM
Bingo. The man acted stupid in front of the cameras, and his enemies multiplied that stupid by a couple orders of magnitude. This certainly isn't the first time that Trump would have done better just to STFU, and let the adults talk.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:26PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QdTOyXz3w [youtube.com]
Do you need a fucking transcript or is your brain not listening to the BULLSHIT he talks about? You wish it was something he didn't say? Here, you can read the wise man's words.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday October 19 2021, @01:45PM
The difference is in what is meant by an ambiguous two word phrase in that ramble. "like that"
If he is referring to the disinfectant then he would be an idiot.
If he is referring to the effect of the disinfectant it is a reasonable, if overly hopeful, statement.
If anyone other than Trump said "wouldn't it be great if we could find a medicine that would kill it as fast as bleach does" you would just agree. You might think it was wishful thinking, but you wouldn't accuse them of being worse than Hitler.
No problem is insoluble, but at Ksp = 2.943×10−25 Mercury Sulphide comes close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @01:29PM
your mechanism for understanding things is probably broken.
I watched the same thing, and he was looking at the lady doctor, and he was pretty obviously asking whether a "cleansing" with bleach can be done. He's so incoherent in general that you can claim all kind of misunderstandings if you want to, and I'm pretty sure in that moment he was more concerned with what he looked like on camera and being delighted with how important he was.
but believe whatever you want.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @06:46PM
I mean I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but it can at least be said that he ASKED about it.
The scary thing was that the response was not an immediate, "NO" from everyone in the room that knew how... anything worked.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday October 18 2021, @06:30PM
Or, alternately, the problem is the consistent refusal of political leaders to take responsibility for the mistakes of their subordinates. If your government hired a website development company because the sales guy was somebody's nephew or some politician's major donor, that was your foul-up too.
That's why he's calling it "OMG Hacking!" He wants to put the responsibility on the discoverer of the failure rather than the cause of the failure.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.