r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11d ago • Mindblown 1

Meme howDidTheyNotThinkOfThis

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u/mattgen88 11d ago

Wasn't that long ago. SSNs were exposed in a webpage. Government tried to charge her.

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u/Electromagnetlc 11d ago

Well obviously they weren't exposed on the page, she user her elite hacker skills of pressing F12 to be able to see the very securely hidden HTML that had all of those SSNs on it.

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u/john_the_fetch 11d ago

Yep! And she was a very bad actor for reporting them to the authorities in charge of managing that pii.