I guess this is where we are now….

A Reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found a flaw on Missouri’s department of education website that let a user see the Social Security numbers of teachers, just by looking at the HTML source code of the site.

The newspaper told the state about the problem, waited for it to be fixed, and then reported on the problem.

So, did Missouri Governor Mike Parson thank the Post-Dispatch and the Reporter for bringing this to their attention?

Not quite.

Instead, Parson was labeling the Post-Dispatch reporter a “hacker” and vowing to seek criminal prosecution.

First off, it shows that the gov has no clue what a “hacker” is?

“The state is committed to bring to justice anyone who hacked our system and anyone who aided and abetted them to do so,” Parson said, later arguing that the reporter was “attempting to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”

The Reporter was doing their job, found a story, reported it to the state so they could fix it, and only then did they publish the story.

The fact that this idiot of a governor is now looking to prosecute the Reporter is now “selling headlines.”

As for “attempting to embarrass the state,” I can assure you, Governor Parson, you are doing a good job of that all on your own.