Missouri governor Mike Parson vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

[Gimpymoo]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ound-security-flaw-a-hacker-threatens-to-sue/

This guy is a raging idiot.

How can you sue someone for viewing website source code? If data is publicly in the web source and is a security risk, that is a you problem.

He is now saying the reporter who flagged it may end up costing the tax payer $50 million..

His latest tweet is hilarious... as are the replies as expected.

https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129

 

[Fluffybob]

HA HA HA HA HA What a Pillock

 

[b-r0ck]

Have had so many laughs at this in the past couple weeks, how ridiculously absurd. He keeps just doubling down on it.

They released this ad last week:

How many people watched this during production and just let it go?

 

[Longbow]

They released this ad last week

I had to check the channel history to see if that video was parody, holy crap.

 

[Gimpymoo]

I had to check the channel history to see if that video was parody, holy crap.

That is genuine?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[d_brennen]

Unfortunately, the courts are just as criminally technology-illiterate.

The $50m figure bandied about is likely what it would cost to fix their entire digital platform from the ground up. They should be taking the original contractors to court for gross negligence

 

[chroniclard]

Brilliant.

 

[b-r0ck]

Unfortunately, the courts are just as criminally technology-illiterate.

The $50m figure bandied about is likely what it would cost to fix their entire digital platform from the ground up. They should be taking the original contractors to court for gross negligence

Right, exactly. If this was flipped around, and the Post Dispatch had a certain governor's personal data embedded in their HTML, well, we know who'd still be getting sued.

 

[chroniclard]

No surprise he is a Republican.

 

[Rainmaker]

This has had me facepalming and laughing in equal measure since he first opened his mouth. Today's exchange, however:





I'm dead!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

 

[Gimpymoo]

https://missouriindependent.com/bri...ter-who-found-security-flaw-in-state-website/

Parson said that he is “no computer expert. I’ll be the first to admit that.”

 

[Scougar]

Good God. What an idiot. Haven't read the story in deoth, but will assume it was base 64 encoded or similar.

I once found one of my team had left data embedded in a place that it wasn't meant to be. (We needed one field, but dev exposed 10, some of those sensitive). If that had been found....

 

[peterwalkley]

Governor poo for brains seems to have been knocked back by a member of his own party, no prosecution of the Journalist will take place: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...urnalist-wont-be-prosecuted-for-viewing-html/