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Confused Governor Says Looking at Webpage's HTML is Criminal Hacking

posted by FatPhil on Monday October 18 2021, @08:42AM   
from the don't-even-think-about-editing-the-URL dept.

upstart writes:

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/

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• Re:Injection Re:Injection (Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @03:31PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @03:31PM (#1188041)

  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".

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• Re:Injection (Score: 1, Troll) by DannyB on Monday October 18 2021, @04:21PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday October 18 2021, @04:21PM (#1188066) Journal

  Here are some facts for you. [businessinsider.com] And some more facts. [yahoo.com]

  • Trump continues to claim without evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
  • Trump claimed his supporters would sit out elections if the GOP didn't back his fraud claims.
  • "Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24" if the claims were not addressed, he said Wednesday.

  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 god Trump told them to
  3. Weeping and wailing whaling about how the 2022 and 2024 elections were stolen! Massive conspiracy! Election fraud! Blame the voting machine manufacturers! etc.

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  If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious

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• Re:Injection (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:15PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19 2021, @12:15PM (#1188372)

  Call it TDS English.

  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

  unable to think or act in a normal or logical way especially because of severe mental illness : crazy or insane.

  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]

  “If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in ’22 or ’24,” Trump declared. “It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”

  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]

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