Journalist accused by Gov. Parson speaks out: 'He's done me wrong'

[Sherman A1]

Josh Renaud was in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom when Missouri Gov. Mike Parson stepped to a lectern in Jefferson City last October. His colleagues had gathered to watch a video feed of Parson’s remarks. Renaud didn’t.

“Whatever it was going to be, I knew it was something I didn’t want to hear,” he said.

One day before, Renaud had published an exposé revealing that a website maintained by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education left vulnerable the Social Security numbers of educators throughout the state.

Renaud knew the governor wasn’t happy — but he didn’t realize how unhappy until he heard gasps from the other side of the newsroom.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2022-02-16/wednesday-st-louis-journalist-at-center-of-parsons-hacking-claim-speaks-out

[lapfog_1]

1. To be clear... his "hack" of the government website

was to simply VIEW the html markup code that displays the page on any browser.

In two clicks in chrome, anyone can "hack" any web page.

For example, this is is the webpage (start of it) for this article in DU.

Missouri is full of morons, apparently some of them are in the government.

body {
font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: .8125em;
text-align: center;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
background-color: #fff;
position: relative;
z-index: 0;
}

user agent stylesheet
body {
display: block;
margin: 8px;
}

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Parson's is pissed that his admin was embarrassed. I guess Parsons would have preferred...

he did nothing and hoped no one else found it and instead of just embarrassing this dick, someone stole peoples' personal info.

This is what passes for moral character among the christofascists.

[ck4829]

3. K&R, an utterly disgusting and chilling attack