.MaddowBlog: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's administration is accusing a reporter of being a 'hacker' — because the governor is confused about what 'hacking' is.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday called for a criminal investigation into a journalist who discovered a vulnerability on a state website that left the Social Security numbers of thousands of public school teachers exposed.
How the reporter and his editors handled the story could be taught in a Journalism 101 course: Renaud contacted a few teachers to verify that the Social Security numbers were authentic and then wrote— which the newspaper held for publication until after the website administrators ensured that the private information was no longer publicly visible.
yesterday:"Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the [Social Security Numbers] of those specific educators. We notified the Cole County prosecutor and the Highway Patrol's Digital Forensic Unit will investigate."
And yet, the Parson administration nevertheless issued a statement yesterday referring to Renaud yesterday as a"I'm not overly concerned about the reporter actually facing some kind of criminal charges. Hopefully, Missouri law enforcement will understand the tech basics well enough to recognize the governor's weird complaints as laughable.
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