This is a terrible story for Politico or any professional news website to have published. By the author's very description, this was a mock exercise involving a

This is a terrible story for Politico or any professional news website to have published. By the author's very description, this was a mock exercise involving a specially-configured MySQL server, not one that uses the same settings as the Florida state website. The article is basically a teenager bragging about how he learned some basic SQL syntax. This story is as silly and irrelevant as a 17-year-old bragging about how he fooled the mainstream media by running wget on www.nytimes.com, using find-and-replace to change all instances of "Democrats" to "poop-heads", and loading his local copy of nytimes.com on his laptop browser. Yet it will be used to stoke FUD in the many technically illiterate readers out there.