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Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach

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Re: Dare I admit to the govenor ...

Sadly, there are some people who would see those as worrying criminal tools. I know if I'm ever investigated for some crime, I'm going to get a lot of blame for having a tool called Wireshark installed on my computer. It's even got that scary name and talks about packet capture, so I must be evil. Wget doesn't have the same cool name credential, but by not being a full word, they'll give it extra points for ubertechnical hacking tool so we're probably even. Unless they have a forensic investigator review my hard drive and find that I've got wget too. Then we will be assumed to be acting in concert, which will be very fun if we're in different countries so we can be called "an international cybercrime organization".

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