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Agreed, but this issue goes far beyond the judicial system. The way the governor handled this situation really showed how much of a liability he feared this st
by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
Agreed, but this issue goes far beyond the judicial system.
The way the governor handled this situation really showed how much of a liability he feared this story would be to him and his party politically. Instead of examining the underlying conditions of the state agency responsible for the data breach, he chose to go after the messenger.
Given that every single time a company gets caught like this, the first thing we all point to is how stingy they are when it comes to security. A conservative governor doesn't want to be in a position where the solution to the problem is to spend money, so he went after the journalist instead.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI would campaign on this alone. Say how the opposing party wants people to be insecure, exposed and that they will try prosecuting you for doing the right thing cause they have such fragile egos.
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- evan_ 5y agoHe found an excuse to publicly attack a big-city journalist. That’s the beginning and end of the reasoning here.
- suzzer99 5y agoAnd I'm sure none of his base will notice or care that months later the reporter isn't actually being prosecuted. The political points scored still count.
- evan_ 5y agoMaybe, or maybe it’ll be “that crooked prosecutor let him go, you need to re-elect me so I can replace the prosecutors.”
- jorblumesea 5y agoIf you look into the history of this specific governor and Missouri politics it makes more sense that he's an ideologue that refuses to accept any kind of bad press or even that mistakes can happen. This is the same politician that claimed he solved Missouri "covid problem" but ranks middle of the pack. It's a mindset that is all too common in politics today. Everything inconvenient is fake news. Every embarrassing headlines needs to be countered in the culture wars. Silence dissent, crush free press, etc etc. https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160?s=21 https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1448697768311132160?s...
- rmbyrro 5y ago> "decoded the HTML source code" > "Highway Patrol's Digital Forensic Unit" This could have been a joke. I'm sorry, but can these people be serious? Really, the digital forensic unit is under the umbrella of the "Highway Patrol"? I bet they're all into decoding HTML source codes all day long...
- CRConrad 5y ago> Really, the digital forensic unit is under the umbrella of the "Highway Patrol"? Maybe it's the only state-wide law enforcement agency?