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

[TexasTowelie]

On Tuesday, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerted the state that Social Security numbers of school teachers and administrators were vulnerable to public exposure due to flaws on a website maintained by Missouri’s department of education.

The newspaper agreed to hold off publishing any story while the department fixed the problem and protected the private information of teachers around the state.

But by Thursday, Gov. Mike Parson was labeling the Post-Dispatch reporter a “hacker” and vowing to seek criminal prosecution.

“The state does not take this matter lightly,” Parson said Thursday at a hastily called press conference. He refused to take questions afterward.

Read more: https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. ...

[TexasTowelie]

2. Hackers do not identify themselves specifically to avoid criminal prosecution.

The governor just provided a reason for people working in good conscience to come forward if they discover an issue like this reporter did. The reporter and the newspaper provided a valuable service, yet the governor is so stupid that he wants to punish them instead.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

3. Yep. Yet another idiotic & harmful move by a Republican governer

more interested in appearing tough than doing the correct thing. Or, too ignorant to know the difference.

[Sherman A1]

4. The only hack involved in the story is

Governor Do Nothing Parsons who is just a political hack.

[gordianot]

5. A good description.

About the only good he ever accomplished was to show enough ambition to help can Greitens. At best all anyone expected from that point was mediocrity. Settling in to being a mid level Fascist government functionary suits him.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Damn straight! Like when I punched out the plumber who told me I had a leaky pipe.

Or the time I slapped a kid who told me I left the gas cap off of my car.