Does anyone have context on what the newspaper “hacked”? The video implies that some teachers’ SSNs were in plaintext on the HTML of a government site, I believe.
In the incident that enraged Parson, a Post-Dispatch reporter found that Social Security numbers for teachers, administrators and counselors was visible in the HTML code of a publicly accessible site operated by the state education department. HTML code is the programming that tells the computer how to display a web page.
The newspaper informed the state of the problem and promised not to publish any story until the issue was fixed.
Right, the SSNs were in plaintext in the html code, and the reporter is a "hacker" for looking at in the browser, reporting the problem to the state, and then to the public. I wonder if browser makers are complicit for including the source view feature.
The newspaper informed the state of the problem and promised not to publish any story until the issue was fixed.
https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/21/parson-doubles-do...