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0 pointsfm26062y ago0 comments

Threat of prosecution can come even without breaking in. Vengeful and ignorant people will always be a thing. [1]

Missouri's governor threatened legal action against a reporter who found SSN were being leaked on a public web page accessible simply by clicking "View Source". The reporter "followed standard protocols for disclosing and reporting on the vulnerability, the governor is treating him as if he attacked the site or was trying to access the teacher’s private information for nefarious purposes" .

This pisses me off on so many different levels. The reporter told proper authorities and gave them time to fix it before he made the information public but MO's jack-wagon of a governor tried to pin blame on the reporter.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-govern...

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AlecSchueler2y ago

Threat of prosecution is of course always present, but the chance of that prosecution making it past the courts is significantly altered by actually committing the acts you might be accused of.

autoexec2y ago

That should have been a carer ending move. According to wikipedia that jackass Mike Parson can't run again and will be replaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Missouri_gubernatorial_el...).

I don't have much faith in Missouri to do better with their next election, but I'd be thrilled to be surprised.

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