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Should the state investigate a reporter who exposed a flaw on a government website?
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No
The reporter, who works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported that Social Security numbers on an education department website were easily accessible. The paper held the stor...
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The reporter, who works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported that Social Security numbers on an education department website were easily accessible. The paper held the story until it notified state officials.
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Wendi Newman
The reporter just did their job. Parson just doesn't want to take responsibility.
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Max DeYoung
If that is true, then the reporter can institute legal proceedings against Parson and get rich, unless the very biased press is not telling the truth. We will see.
Brian Jones
Because the reporter did nothing with the info except report it to the people that needed to fix it. Parsons has no clue of how to run Missouri.
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Reporter broke the law. Reporter must pay the price for being a perpetrator. State must arrest, charge and convict. It's that simple. End of story.
ReplyA responsible person would alert the State to this flaw so it could be corrected without costing money or danger to innocent victims. This so called journalist needs to do some hard jail time.
ReplyI voted yes due to the incredibly biased way your question is posed. The question should say " should the state investigate the reporterwho hacked the system." he did not do it to expose flaws. He did it to dig up dirt. Exposing the flaw was a side effect. Not the intent.
ReplyPolitically motivated and potentially (read most likely) criminal - that is an apt description of the St. Louis Post Disgrace.
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