Enlarge / Cybersecurity professor Shaji Khan of College of Missouri–St. Louis. (credit score: College of Missouri–St. Louis)
The cybersecurity professor who helped uncover the Missouri authorities’s failure to guard lecturers’ Social Safety numbers has demanded that the state stop its investigation into him and cease making “baseless accusations” that he dedicated a criminal offense.
As we reported on October 14, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson threatened to prosecute and search civil damages from a St. Louis Publish-Dispatch journalist who recognized a safety flaw that uncovered the Social Safety numbers of lecturers and different college staff. The state can be investigating Shaji Khan, a cybersecurity professor on the College of Missouri-St. Louis who helped the Publish-Dispatch journalist confirm the safety vulnerability.
That is all taking place even supposing the state authorities made lecturers’ Social Safety numbers out there in an unencrypted type within the HTML supply code of a publicly accessible web site. The governor’s technique of blaming those that found the flaw earned him widespread mockery on social media from people who find themselves accustomed to the usual “view supply” perform current in main net browsers.
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