Originally published at: Reporter likely to be charged for using "view source" feature on web browser | Boing Boing
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Chances of him being charged are close to zero and there’s zero chance of him actually getting convicted. This is just political theatre from a governor who’s desperate to keep the news away from his state being ground zero for multiple waves of COVID and his anti-attempts to stop it. Even the prosecutor won’t talk about the case.
He’s been trying to have this guy charged for months: Governor Wants to Prosecute Journalist Who Clicked ‘View Source’ on Government Site
Also, your story has a broken link. You want this one: Parson says he believes prosecutor will bring charges in Post-Dispatch case
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Governor Parson, coming in just under the wire for 2021’s Most Stupid Tech-Related Prosecution Award.
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Reporter may be able to retire on a fat malicious prosecution suit.
Taxpayers will pay more taxes because they chose to elect an idiot governor.
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The lockpick analogy is wrong though. It’s more like you sent a letter requesting some information and the state’s website sent you more information than you asked for. View source isn’t lockpicking. It’s just a different way of looking at what the server sent you.
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Frankly I expected more from Gomer Pyle.
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A: attractive nuisance.
B: if the Governor wanted to keep it safe he should have kept the website on state grounds instead of abandoning it out just anywhere.
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NO! Jim Nabors was a nation treasure.
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I saw a cool video about him just recently. He seems like a solid guy.
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Hey, now! Jim Nabors was a decent human being and doesn’t deserve to be painted with the same brush as one of the worst human beings I can think of. It’s not my story, so I can’t tell you how I know, but Parsons is and has always been an absolute festering piece of shit.
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“If somebody picks your lock on your house — for whatever reason, it’s not a good lock, it’s a cheap lock or whatever problem you might have — they do not have the right to go into your house and take anything that belongs to you,” Parson said in a statement.
That’s a terrible analogy.
A more accurate analogy would be something like “If you don’t want anyone to capture the content of your billboard by taking a photo of it, then don’t put a billboard up where everybody can see it.”
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And it’s about intimidation. Subtle and stupid, but intimidation nonetheless.
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Missouri loves company.
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Hey, at least it’s a step up from the kidnapping, stalking, revenge porning monster he replaced. You know… his boss.
/s I guess?
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Governor Parsons doesn’t have a firm grasp of this new-fangled internets. Maybe he should stick to books.
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But people sometimes add Table of Contents to them, which is violating how books should be read!
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I agree with some of the other comments here. The fact that seems to keep getting missed is that he was viewing a file that was on his own computer, sent to him by the web server. He wasn’t viewing content on the server. If you send someone some data, you can’t turn around a complain when they actually read it.
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