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       Missouri Likely to Prosecute Reporter for Viewing Web Page Source

   Josh Centers

   Missouri Governor Mike Parson is encouraging the prosecution of a St.
   Louis Post-Dispatch reporter for the supposed crime of [1]viewing the
   HTML source of a state website, which inadvertently contained Social
   Security numbers of state educators. The reporter alerted the state and
   published an article only once the data was removed, but it looks
   likely that Missouri will move forward with computer tampering charges.
   Despite an FBI agent saying that the incident was not a network
   intrusion and that the state's database was misconfigured, it seems
   that the governor isn't above interpreting 'View source,' a standard
   feature of Web browsers since the earliest days of the Web, as a form
   of tampering in an attempt to harass a news outlet over an embarrassing
   report. Technological ignorance, malice, or an unholy combination of
   both?

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References

   1. https://www.union-bulletin.com/parson-says-he-believes-prosecutor-will-bring-charges-in-post-dispatch-case/article_006a0362-fef8-5b61-8ae2-a6abad698dfd.html
   2. https://www.union-bulletin.com/parson-says-he-believes-prosecutor-will-bring-charges-in-post-dispatch-case/article_006a0362-fef8-5b61-8ae2-a6abad698dfd.html

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