“Digging around HTML code” is criminal. Missouri Governor doubles down again in attack ad
Really
Calling something fake news doesn't count if you don't know what you are talking about.
The stupidity and lying is getting very tiresome.
“Digging around HTML code” is criminal.
Re: “Digging around HTML code” is criminal.
Idiot state gov't programmer uses CLIENT SIDE HTML COMMENTS <!-- like this --> to "hide" social security numbers on state website; should have used SERVER SIDE comments to do it (anything commented out server side never gets sent to the client's web browser). As a result, the SSNs were visible to anyone who did a right-click -> view source. MO governor calls newspaper reporter who discovered the issue "a hacker"
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Chris Vickery, a California-based data security expert, told The Independent that it appears the department of education was “publishing data that it shouldn’t have been publishing.
“That’s not a crime for the journalists discovering it,” he said. “Putting Social Security numbers within HTML, even if it’s ‘non-display rendering’ HTML, is a stupid thing for the Missouri website to do and is a type of boneheaded mistake that has been around since day one of the Internet. No exploit, hacking or vulnerability is involved here.”
Love to see this stuff happening.“That’s not a crime for the journalists discovering it,” he said. “Putting Social Security numbers within HTML, even if it’s ‘non-display rendering’ HTML, is a stupid thing for the Missouri website to do and is a type of boneheaded mistake that has been around since day one of the Internet. No exploit, hacking or vulnerability is involved here.”
In general, people are quite stupid. The US has decided that uninformed or outright stupid people should be the leaders.