>Republican state Rep. Tony Lovasco, who according to his legislative biography has worked in software deployment and maintenance, tweeted Thursday that “it’s c

>Republican state Rep. Tony Lovasco, who according to his legislative biography has worked in software deployment and maintenance, tweeted Thursday that “it’s clear the Governor’s Office has a fundamental misunderstanding of both web technology and industry standard procedures for reporting security vulnerabilities. >“Journalists responsibly sounding an alarm on data privacy is not criminal hacking,” he said. I worry that we're heading in a direction where somebody like Lovasco won't be willing to break with somebody of the same political party even for something like this. It's already incredibly easy to code this story as a PR "win" for Democrats by embarrassing a prominent Republican. So then isn't giving a common-sense perspective in this circumstance kind of just a betrayal of everything your side stands for? I mean it's pretty unlikely that anything of legal import actually happens to the reporter, so for the "greater good" of accomplishing your wider agenda, or perhaps even more importantly preventing the other side's agenda, it might be better to just stay quiet and let this blow over as partisan bickering.