[genewitch]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-governor-says-security-1...

In theory you're right. In practice, just because something responds publicly does not mean it's public.

If someone left the vault door open on an ATM it doesn't mean you can just have the money, or even take pictures of the insides.

Obviously, in IT, people should strive to prevent leaking information, but that's obviously going to be an issue for a great long while.

[bduerst]

That article is about a tech-illiterate governor using his station to threaten prosecution of the press... for discussing a 10-yr old bug that's already well known publicly.

If anything, that's more to the discussion of giving social security numbers to inept IT departments.