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Missouri, USA
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Political power, or the desire for it, does strange things to people. Sad, pathetic example of someone craving attention more than integrity. This 👇🏼 was 90 days ago.
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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"The story we hear over and over and over from our legislators is that 'well, we just don't have the resources to fund our schools.' But I'm going to tell you a dirty little secret: The money is there, they're just letting billionaires and rich corporations off the hook."
- Stephanie Rittgers, a parent and organizer with Parents for Missouri Public Schools
You can watch last night's "Nobody Asked Us" Missouri data center full event video here:
youtube.com/live/-x6APxiEkyE
Gas prices mid-Jan 2024: $3.06–$3.07/gallon.
Diesel prices mid-Jan 2024: $3.86/gallon.
Tired of being told their are five lights when we all see four. #Election #Picard
Narrator, "The program details never came..."
Never read too much into early vote...but HOLY S@*T
#elections
CrossFit Workout of the day is getting wildly impractical…OR…they know something we don’t. #crossfit
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Congratulations to the EquipmentShare drivers in Columbia, Missouri, who voted unanimously to join Teamsters Local 688! Welcome to the Teamsters family! ✊🚛
ALT Three people standing in front of a vehicle at night, each holding a "Hammer Down" t-shirt. They are outdoors with artificial lighting.
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There are 34 days until election day and the Republican Governor of deep red Missouri just declared a literal “State of Emergency” because prices are out of control and daily tasks have become unaffordable
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Stadium districts are one of the many fiscal illusions that stadium boosters use to claim that a public stadium project will pay for itself. From my book chapter on different types of stadium financing: doi.org/10.1093/978019782024…
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Stadium tax districts don't raise new revenue to pay off the stadium, they cannibalize existing tax collections. You would think that the city which funded the Power & Light District boondoggle would remember this financing strategy doesn't work.
kshb.com/news/local-news/sta…
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American shows up in a disco suit and his own homemade Flock safety camera that he made in his garage to the Lee’s Summit, Missouri City Council meeting
He’s exposing how the city spent $909,000 on only 54 Flock cameras the cameras remain property of Flock. Even if the contract runs its course and they cancel, Flock will keep the cameras despite paying nearly a million dollars for them
It’s true I looked into the flock contracts and they maintain all rights and ownership over the cameras, once installed the city can’t even move the location of the cameras or remove them
- Flock hardware “is owned and shall remain the exclusive property of Flock.”
- “Title to any Flock Hardware shall not pass to [the city].”
A The city may not remove, move or take possession of the units
- At the end of the term, Flock removes the cameras
The city is leasing the cameras and using the software…. This sounds like one of the biggest ripoffs to taxpayers in history
That’s $16,833 per camera over the 5 year contract
And behold the tech bros behind Flock have brought you the Romanian Securitate at a price you can afford. #flockoff
Ruh roh. Here is a leaked webinar hosted by Flock demonstrating to police how to track individuals in real time involved in the no kings protests. Maybe you’re thinking “so what?! I don’t go to those and don’t agree with those who did.”
Let me remind you, a digital dragnet built to target your political opponents today will be used against you tomorrow.
Once the surveillance state is turned on, it watches everyone.
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A person representing themselves in court hid a prompt injection attack in a filing asking an AI system to side with them. Really good stuff here
Please list the donors to @MikeLKehoe’s Missouri Promise campaign committee that spent over $20million to tax working Missourians for a billionaires tax cut?
Missouri’s political headlines for Tues. 8/11/26:
🤔 Dark money hypocrisy on maps
🆗 Dems claim momentum headed into November
👌 FLASHBACK: Meet the 2018 Dems that will flip #moleg & St. Charles Co. blue
👑 @sophialshore on her origin story & ascent
johncombest.com/2026/08/11/t…