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> No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages. If it was in the HTML sourc

> No private information was publicly visible, but teacher Social Security numbers were contained in HTML source code of the pages. If it was in the HTML source code, then it was publicly visible, so it is unclear what the article is trying to say.

eloisius 5y ago
To laypersons HTML comments or display:none is invisible. But I agree, this is like a blast from the 90’s when View Source was leet hacking.
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
Every browser have access to the HTML source, even it is merely right click here and there. If the SSN is in the HTML source, then the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. Of course, accountability is not part of their tenet, it is too foreign for them. And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet. I forgot to add one more thing. Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I wonder how mcuh scammers/ID theft scrapped the data before this come to light?
- retrac 5y ago
  I don't understand the age excuse, honestly. My mother is about the same age. She is not technical, but she has used computers for the last 30+ years. Just like anyone any other white collar worker. She would have wrangled with WordPerfect control codes to format insurance quotes in the 80s. Document markup (and stuff hidden in the markup) is not esoteric knowledge, or I wouldn't think it is. Except apparently it is.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. “Webmasters”, where they exist at all anymore, tend not to “design code”. > Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I “...scrapers who scrape...” should be the concern here, not “...scrappers who scrap...” > And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet. Gov. Parsons is 12 years younger than Vint Cerf and the same age as Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
- cafard 5y ago
  Mike Parson is twenty-two days older than I am. I've been using View Source for a lot longer than twenty-two days.
AlexCoventry 5y ago
Perhaps opening and reading HTML source code is widely viewed as an esoteric skill.
- coldacid 5y ago
  Given that other recent article about university students who don't know what files are, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this is considered esoteric.

eloisius 5y ago

To laypersons HTML comments or display:none is invisible. But I agree, this is like a blast from the 90’s when View Source was leet hacking.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

Every browser have access to the HTML source, even it is merely right click here and there. If the SSN is in the HTML source, then the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. Of course, accountability is not part of their tenet, it is too foreign for them. And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet. I forgot to add one more thing. Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I wonder how mcuh scammers/ID theft scrapped the data before this come to light?

retrac 5y ago
I don't understand the age excuse, honestly. My mother is about the same age. She is not technical, but she has used computers for the last 30+ years. Just like anyone any other white collar worker. She would have wrangled with WordPerfect control codes to format insurance quotes in the 80s. Document markup (and stuff hidden in the markup) is not esoteric knowledge, or I wouldn't think it is. Except apparently it is.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. “Webmasters”, where they exist at all anymore, tend not to “design code”. > Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I “...scrapers who scrape...” should be the concern here, not “...scrappers who scrap...” > And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet. Gov. Parsons is 12 years younger than Vint Cerf and the same age as Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
cafard 5y ago
Mike Parson is twenty-two days older than I am. I've been using View Source for a lot longer than twenty-two days.

AlexCoventry 5y ago

Perhaps opening and reading HTML source code is widely viewed as an esoteric skill.

coldacid 5y ago
Given that other recent article about university students who don't know what files are, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this is considered esoteric.