Stolen SSNs on Missouri government website were done because they "decoded the HTML source code"

[FelineOverlord]

As tweeted by the genius Governor of Missouri.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[TheBlackAdder]

1. That's some 2002 HTML logic for ya!

[greenjar_01]

2. The very complex operation of "decoding" a mark-up language

Good God, people knew not to do this in 1996!

[Otto_Harper]

3. As an exercise for the student, The Wayback machine still has numerous copies of this site

Of course, I am sure the highly erudite Governor of the State already knew that, and has had his State Police storming the servers of wherever that service resides.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. This is what you get (pure nonsense) for a non-IT guy to accuse others of hacking, etc.

This unfortunately is my governor of MO. I am in woe of our state and its chances of getting more IT workers to work in MO at MO businesses when the governor himself is so ignorant (along w/ his worker bees too) of IT practices, software, coding, etc.

Someone should have called him out on it before he got this far spewing this nonsense.

Pathetic.

[FelineOverlord]

6. Stolen SSNs on Missouri government website were done because they "decoded the HTML source code"

Link to tweet

[Leith]

7. I think I know how he got it all garbled

Somebody tried to explain how PHP works and the goober-nor got mixed up.

That's no excuse.

Also: for those who like to download webpages, try the Drudge Report. The page is so simplistic (even more than you would ascertain from just looking at it) that it doesn't even use a CSS file. The only styling is inline and consists of a little font size and some bolding here and there. I wrote better pages on the first day I tried it back in the early 1990s.

[hunter]

9. Simple was a good thing.

A browser could render pages according to the users preferences. The world wide web as it exists today became a complete kludge as it was forced to become a multimedia platform.

Since the acceptance of Javascript, and now with WebAssembly, a browser is simply a virtual computer downloading huge programs to render flashy web pages that often have very little actual content and lots of annoying advertising.

I sort of miss the days when the Opera Web browser fit on a single 3.5 inch floppy disk.

When I first logged on to Democratic Underground I was using Windows 98SE and the Opera. DU itself, as I recall, wasn't even using a formal database, it was just a file system. Not posting "Dial Up Warning" on posts containing many large images was a breach of etiquette, because most people had internet connections slower than the advertised top speeds of 56k.

Of the greatest horrors in computing history, one was IBM's decision to use the 8088 microprocessor in its original PC, leading to the subsequent evolution of the x86 microprocessor family, and another was the use and subsequent evolution of HTML for the World Wide Web.

Those are the sorts of historical accidents that can never be undone.

[Skittles]

8. OMG

a "developer" thought it was secure to "hide" fields in an html page.....

[FakeNoose]

10. Oh no! I've been viewing the source for over 30 years! I guess they're coming for me next