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I don’t understand this comment. Would you mind explaining?

Missouri governor accused a journalist of "hacking" a government site for viewing the HTML source and discovering that a bunch of teachers' social security numbers were embedded in the page.

Instead of thanking him for finding and reporting the flaw so they could address the actual issue, the governor made legal threats.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...

This quote from the education commissioner cracked me up:

In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”

"Unencrypted" by reading English-based text with his eyeballs :)

I think its about Missouri pretending that a journalist writing about publicly exposed information in HTML was a criminal violation

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