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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: 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.