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David Vorick of Siacoin (SC) Skynet on Anonymity to Protect the Vulnerable

David Vorick of Siacoin (SC) Skynet on Anonymity to Protect the Vulnerable

David Vorick keeps reinstating on the importance of decentralization anytime he has a chance to point to real time events and here is a new one.

David Vorick of Siacoin (SC) Skynet in response to Governor Mike Parson expressed:  Sometimes you need anonymity to protect the vulnerable without getting wrecked yourself. Centralized infra assumes a benign and competent state. A fragile assumption at best.

Governor Mike Parson stated:  Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the SSN of those specific educators. We notified the Cole County prosecutor and the Highway Patrol’s Digital Forensic Unit will investigate.

Upon receiving this notice, DESE immediately contacted the Missouri Office of Administration ITSD, who programs and maintains the web application, to remove public access to the portal and update the code.

This matter is serious. The state is committing to bring to justice anyone who hacked our system and anyone who aided or encouraged them to do so — in accordance with what Missouri law allows AND requires.

A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. This individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert and decode the code.

Under Missouri law, a person commits the offense of tampering with computer data if he or she knowingly and without authorization accesses, takes, and examines personal information without permission. This data was not freely available and had to be converted and decoded.

The state does not take this matter lightly and we are working to strengthen our security to prevent this incident from happening again. The state is owning its part, and we are addressing areas in which we need to do better than we have done before.

We will not rest until we clearly understand the intentions of this individual and why they were targeting Missouri teachers.

Community response:  I’m a programmer. This is like saying “The trespasser intruded on a public park bench, exploited the grass on the park lawn with his shoes, and viewed sensitive street signs with his eyes.  If you don’t want someone to have access to a thing, you have to not put it on a webpage.”

This is no kidding scary. The incompetence on display; the utter lack of understanding of how things work in just GOVParsonMO’s thread here, is astounding. He doesn’t even understand that he’s incriminating his own administration with the admissions in this thread.

 

 

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