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by JangoSteve 1707 days ago
So they included the SSNs in the HTML source, and then said the reporter hacked and unencrypted the HTML by reading the non-displayed SSNs in the source. That's like taping the SSNs up to the inside of a tinted window and then saying the reporter committed breaking and entering by shining a flashlight on the window.