Press F12 and Become a Hacker Today! (aka: Why We Need More Cybersecurity Awareness Month)

Earlier this month, we had this...

And a .... what is it when you double-down a dozen times and keep doing it?

And even...

I have thoughts.... 

Starting with WTF???

I don't normally jump into political topics, but I don't really see this as political. I see this as a Governor who either refuses to listen to the people he hired to know about basic technology stuff, or he's hired a bunch of complete idiots. Though reading through some of the other articles, it appears to be a case of the former. 

Not only did auditors previously mention these issues, but the reporter did the responsible thing and privately disclosed this information before his report. Then, this extremely clueless Governor kept going with his statement, despite his ignorance being pointed out again and again and again on social media. 

So the reporter, Shaji Khan, absolutely deserves that apology, Gov. Parson.

And for those of you out there who are interested in this so-called "multi-step process" that was used, I'll give you the details. I'm completely opposed to discussing hacking "how-to"s in a public forum, but I'm fairly certain I used this "hack" to teach myself HTML about 20 years ago. 

Disclaimer: Browsers will vary slightly, and there are many more ways to accomplish this "hack".

Here goes...

If you're using Chrome, Right Click on a page ...

And click "View page source". (Or just click Ctrl-U)

You'll get a page with some funny-looking words on it, but don't worry. That's the "hacked" details of the page. 

There's also the super-secret, only-for-developers-and-hackers way to do this. Just press F12 and you can get that info and even more.

I can forgive any politician making a mistake, but to continue to go on and on about this "hack".

The words I had earlier seem insufficient. Although this does make a good story for Cybersecurity Awareness Month.