{"id":29084,"date":"2021-10-14T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29084"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:27:29","slug":"a-little-over-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/a-little-over-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Over The Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/10\/14\/mike-parson-vows-prosecution-after-st-louis-reporter-finds-state-data-flaw-state-highway-patrol\/8450478002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Parson says Missouri is pursuing prosecution after St. Louis reporter finds state data flaw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Mike Parson said he was pursuing criminal prosecution against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its reporters Thursday after the newspaper discovered a data vulnerability in a state website.<\/p>\n<p>Sections of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education&#8217;s website allowed someone visiting the site to search through teacher credentials and certifications, revealing Social Security numbers within the HTML source code of the pages, the Post-Dispatch reported. That source code is available to anyone visiting a website on a web browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, pumping out the social security numbers in hidden fields is bad juju, and it does not require any manner of hacking to get to it.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why Parson has gone nuclear over this?  To shore up his support with educational professionals?  C&#8217;mon, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parson says Missouri is pursuing prosecution after St. Louis reporter finds state data flaw: Gov. Mike Parson said he was pursuing criminal prosecution against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its reporters Thursday after the newspaper discovered a data vulnerability in a state website. Sections of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education&#8217;s website allowed someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29085,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions\/29085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}